First lesson WAS: Re: Marietta, was Slytherin's Reputation

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No: HPFGUIDX 185686

> Carol responds:
> 
> The dream shows that, thanks to Hagrid, Percy, Draco, and others--
not
> to mention his delusion that Snape caused the pain in his scar--
Harry
> is predisposed to think that Snape is prejudiced against
> non-Slytherins and particularly against Gryffindors.

Alla:

Not to me it does not show that. If I would have heard Harry thinking 
anything to that effect in class before Snape starts his questioning, 
that would have show me that Harry was *predisposed* to that. All 
that the dream showed me is that Harry had a dream, I saw nothing 
indicating that his dream influenced what he was thinking about Snape.

Carol:
Snape's
> questioning, which I admit is accompanied with sarcasm and Snape's 
own
> assumptions about Harry, reinforces that negative impression, 
leading
> Harry to think the worst and assume that Snape is trying to steal 
the
> Sorceror's Stone. <SNIP>

Alla:

And to me there is nothing to reinforce, for all I know Harry 
completely put this dream out of his mind before he went to class.


Carol: 
> As for the narrator's comment that Snape, like McGonagall, had the
> gift of keeping the class quiet before he even spoke, that's not a
> favorable observation but a simple (and neutral) statement of fact. 

Alla:

It is not a negative observation either, isn't it? And I disagree 
that it is neutral, I would not say that somebody has a gift of doing 
anything when I am disliking this person.


> Carol, who thinks that Harry's relationship with Snape was marred by
> mutual misunderstanding and preconceptions from Day One
>

Alla:

I know.