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

[Carol]

No: HPFGUIDX 185854

Magpie wrote:
> I think he may have hated him as an abstraction already. But when he
showed up looking like James he reacted with hatred, however he'd felt
before that, and that kept on going. I think it's quite possible he
would have reacted differently if Harry had looked more like Lily. <snip>

Carol responds:

Or if Harry had shown Lily's interest in and aptitude for Potions?
He'd have had no reason to cheek Snape by suggesting that he call on
Hermione  if he knew the answers himself, so he wouldn't have lost
that point or demonstrated what Snape considered arrogance (especially
on top of the ignorance he had previously demonstrated). He might have
seen a bit of Lily rather than just James in Harry, and the hatred, if
that's what it was (and I don't agree that intense dislike and initial
prejudice against someone qualifies as hatred) had that been the case.

Carol, noting that Snape was thirty-one, not thirty-six, at the time
of this incident (not that it matters)