Predictions for Harry Potter Ending

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No: HPFGUIDX 172194

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" <justcarol67 at ...> 
wrote:
> And it's equally understandable
> that DDM!Snape would do everything in his power to prevent James's
> son, the only one who can save the WW from Voldemort, from turning
> into a second James, puncturing his status as "our new celebrity" from
> Day One.

Lyn says: I've been thinking recently that, whether intentionally or 
not, Snape plays somewhat the same role for Harry within the WW that 
the Dursleys do when he's with them. I can't remember which book it's 
in, but somewhere early on (I think) Dumbledore tells Harry that he 
could've been given to any wizarding family to raise and they would 
have been honored to have him... and I'm thinking, yes, and very 
possibly they would also have indulged him and catered to his every 
whim and treated him like the "treasure" that James was in his own 
parents' estimation. And what would that have done to Harry's character?

Those ten years living with the Dursleys non-stop - as horrible as they 
were - did keep Harry from growing up as the spoiled, celebrated 
darling of the entire WW, which might have made him, in the long run, 
completely unfit to play the role he now knows he must play in saving 
it. Snape, for whatever reasons you want to theorize, does a pretty 
good job of balancing out any "spoiling" of Harry that might take place 
at Hogwarts. And I'm not sure that's an entirely bad thing in the long 
run, even if Snape's motives are not laudable in and of themselves.

(This fits nicely in with the idea of Slytherin needing to be there to 
maintain the proper "balance" within the microcosm that is Hogwart's if 
you agree with the notion that it's the rift between Slytherin's house 
and the rest of the school - a reflection of the original rift between 
the SS and the other founders - that is a big part of the overall 
problem to begin with. And at this point in the story, the rift is 
being reinforced by intolerance and prejudice from both sides.)

Lyn