Since we're wondering about Quirrell...

[Ceridwen]

No: HPFGUIDX 163974

I recently read PS/SS again, and have begun to wonder about the 
dinner conversation between Quirrell and Snape at the opening feast.  
By this time, Quirrell is Quirrell!Mort, and the back of his turban, 
where LV's head resides, is facing Harry.  Harry doesn't know this at 
the time, he only knows that his scar is hurting and Snape is looking 
at him.  He gets the impression that Snape doesn't like him.

Maybe, from that point on, Snape doesn't.  Quirrell had met Harry in 
Diagon Alley, but Snape had never met him before.  If LV is directing 
Quirrell at this point, might he have tried to make Harry look as bad 
as possible to one of his former followers?  Could Quirrell have told 
Snape how arrogant he found Harry to be when he met him, whether it 
was the truth or not?

This would, of course, assume some personal knowledge of the 
animosity between Snape and James, on the part of either Quirrell or 
LV.

Also, one point I just thought of, could Harry's scar have started 
hurting when LV began to get angry or annoyed with him as he faced in 
Harry's direction while Quirrell was telling Snape about Harry?  LV 
has no reason to like the boy, after all.

I was just wondering if Snape just disliked Harry and thought of him 
as an arrogant boy merely based on his views of James, or if Quirrell!
Mort's report of how he found Harry to be, negatively influence 
Snape's opinion?  Would things in the Potions classroom have been 
different if Snape and Quirrell hadn't sat together that night?

Ceridwen.