[HPforGrownups] Re: PoA Ch 14 - 16 post DH look

[Edna Nathan]

No: HPFGUIDX 181589

Alla:

I can never forgive Snape for doing what he is doing
in the next 
pages. 
<snip>
But having said that, I think you could be very well
right, 
especially post DH. Since we know that Snape wanted
Harry alive as 
part of Lily while hating him as his own person ( or
at least this 
is my intepretation) , I am sure he was glad to see
that Harry was 
okay.

Edna:

About Snape's treatment of Harry, JKR said that it was
unfair that Snape loathed Harry so much, even 'till
the very end he loathed him. I think it was Dumbledore
who told Snape  that he saw in Harry what he wanted to
see, another James Potter when in fact Harry was much
more like his mother. Snape was tormented by James,
the ring leader of the marauders all through school.
James then manages somehow to win Lily's heart, Lily,
who's Snapes reason for living. He could care less
that James was killed, but he could never forgive
himself for Lily's death. He probably would have
preferred it if LV succeeded in killing Harry at
Godric's Hollow that night as well. I think that if
Harry looked more like his mother, Snape would have
been softer on him. Imagine how he must have felt
everytime he looked at Harry, the product of his worst
enemy and the love of his life. It must have irked
him. But at least he was remorseful and gave his
allegiance to Dumbledore  and then proceeded to devote
his life to bringing down LV.

Edna