Clues to Snape's Loyalties

[Kathryn Lambert]

No: HPFGUIDX 170749

Okay, so I was re-reading SS/PS last night, and something dawned on me. 
   
  Whenever Harry overhears a conversation between two people, especially out of doors, he always jumps to a conclusion, and it's always the wrong one. 
   
  In SS/PS, he assumes Snape is bullying/controlling Quirrell, when it's really Snape trying to protect the stone and Harry.
   
  I can't think of the specific instances in CoS when it happens, though I am about to re-read that one, so I can double check. 
   
  In Azkaban, he definitely misunderstands the conversation between Lupin and Sirius.
   
  In Goblet, he hears Krum, and misinterprets. 
   
  And in HBP, he hears Dumbledore and Snape.
   
  It seems to be a pattern of hearing two people in a secret conversation, and immediately jumping to the entirely wrong conclusion. So, if JKR sticks to her pattern, then Harry HAS to be wrong about Snape. He HAS to be misinterpreting Snape's motives. Because, the conversation that Harry overhears is always the source of his actions at the end of the book, and although his actions are correct, his motivation is often mistaken. EXCEPT in HBP. In HPB, Harry is RIGHT - or seemingly so. This obvious departure from the pattern in the other books leads me to believing that it ISN'T a departure, but a deliberate misdirection by JKR, one that will be resolved in DH, when we discover that Snape is in fact DDM, and that Harry, as usual, jumped to a mistaken conclusion. 
   
  What do ya'll think? Katie

 
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