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

[sistermagpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 185856

> 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). 

Magpie:
I wouldn't be so sure that even Lily would know random Potions facts 
the first day of class, especially having grown up a Muggle. Harry 
could have had a big aptitude for Potions and still had the same 
experience on the first day since this is the first experience he's 
having with Potions. Though I would suspect that if Harry had had all 
the answers Snape might have just labelled him a know-it-all and 
thought him more arrogant than ever. Snape's dislike of Harry seems 
to have much more to do with things that have already happened, and 
I'm not sure what all Harry would have had to do to counter it. I 
think Harry's impression that he was kind of doomed the minute he 
walked in was correct.

-m