Why did Snape _really_ hate Harry?

[horridporrid03]

No: HPFGUIDX 186957

> >>Zara:
> > I read this essay at some point between the publication of HBP and DH(and found it very well-written and interesting). <SNIP> The conclusion that Snape was likely recruited by Albus before he became a Death Eater (in the aftermath of the Prank, in fact), I found an interesting and new idea at the time, but I consider it to have been refuted by DH canon.
> > <snip>

> >>Frank D: 
> Having just reread the Prince's Tale I now see that you are correct.
> <big snip of text>

Betsy Hp:
What I find so disappointing is that, imo, the essay is logical and canon is not.  Where the essay provides a neat answer that gives both Snape and Dumbledore some depth (Dumbledore becomes rather coldly calculating, but very, very clever; Snape is given complex and all too human motivations and drives), canon gives us an answer that serves mainly to flatten them. Dumbledore becomes a judgmental, fool.  (How stupid to you have to be to just *let* an eavesdropper go like that?)  Snape becomes pathetic.

It's on a level with putting the prank before the 'mudblood' scene.  It's bizarrely destructive.

In my opinion, anyway.

Betsy Hp