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

[sistermagpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 185827

> Alla:
> 
> And I would have **significantly** less problems with it if Snape 
> arrived to this conclusion after teaching Harry say for a year. NOT 
> after one lesson. Meaning that not that I agree that Harry is 
> arrogant, but that if Snape after teaching Harry for a year came to 
> that conclusion. I would still thought him to be incorrect, but hey 
> over the year he would have observed enough of **Harry** for me to 
> decide that he made such conclusion based on whom he thinks **Harry** 
> is.

Magpie:
I honestly think that the big issue in the first Snape/Harry scene is 
that Snape really does hate Harry and that comes through loud and clear 
to Harry. It's not, imo, just that Snape chooses to ask Harry a 
question and put him on the spot, or even snarks at him for being a 
celebrity. I actually can imagine a teacher doing that as part of the 
way he just deals with kids. I wouldn't be shocked if Snape did select 
a random kid to show his ignorance the first day.

But Snape is incapable of randomly choosing Harry for this because he 
loathes him. So imo something that might come across as just "this 
teacher's a jerk" or "this teacher uses sarcasm and humiliation to make 
a point the first day" in another class comes across as a personal 
hatred of Harry in this one. What it always comes down to to me is that 
it's not even like Harry ends that first class, iirc, by saying he 
hates Snape. It's that he's shocked by feeling like Snape hates *him*. 
And he's correct. Snape's behavior in the first class isn't pleasant 
for Harry, but I don't think it would have been as big a deal as it was 
if Snape was just obnoxious to Gryffindors. He might dislike him as a 
teacher, but I don't think he'd grow to hate him the way he does. The 
hatred comes from the feeling that Snape has something against him 
personally, and the more he learns about why Snape hates him personally 
the more he hates Snape. 

-m