CHAPTER DISCUSSION: Prisoner of Azkaban Chapter 2: Aunt Marge's Big Mistake

[AmanitaMuscaria]

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> > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/189405
> > AmanitaMuscaria: Why do you think JKR mirrored the scene of
> > Snape having his trouser-leg in tatters and bloody from Fluffy
> > in Philosophers Stone with Vernon rushing after Harry after he'd
> > blown Marge up?
> 
> Mike:
> I had never thought of this parallel before. I suppose we should have noticed the disparity between the Vernon and Severus while she was drawing the parallel. Snape was acting selflessly trying to protect the Stone, and he sought nothing from Harry. Dursley was oblivious to his and his sister's maltreatment of Harry, and went blustering after Harry to fix his sister's predicament. Yet both of them were reluctant protectors of Harry, and both because they loved an Evans woman.
> 
> So, AM, did I get it? <g>
> 
> ~Mike
>
AM now - I dunno if you got it! ;^)
I wondered if JKR meant us to see Snape taking up Vernon's role at Hogwarts, before she really worked out that Snape would have a much more pivotal role in the story? 
Some of the other characters seem, to me, to have this feeling they're going one way, then they become a different sort of player in her game. Hagrid's my favourite for this - through most of the books, he becomes a comic bumbling sideshow, West Country accent and all, but in the first book, he seemed powerful and quite dark to me, yellow circus tent notwithstanding. 
I like your link with the Evans women; I hadn't seen it quite like that before!