Chapter Discussion: Prisoner of Azkaban Ch 19: The Servant of Lord Voldemort

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "kathy" <kat7555 at ...> wrote:
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> > Bart:

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> > So, while Snape was bound to protect Harry, he still resented that
> > Harry, too, had become the golden boy, and mistook his behavior for
> > attention-getting, considering himself to be above the rules, and
> > possibly even saw Harry as the bully in the Harry/Draco relationship.
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> Kathy:
> Harry never was the Golden Boy. His aunt and uncle resented him and
> his cousin was a huge bully. His fellow students were quick to judge
> him especially in the Chamber of Secrets when Harry was speaking
> Parseltongue. Snape's biggest mistake was not getting to know Harry
> as a separate person. Can you imagine how Sirius would have reacted
> if Snape had actually bonded with Harry?

Potioncat:
But Harry seemed like the Golden Boy when he first arrived. There's a long description just before the first potions class, about students whispering about Harry Potter and going out of their way to see Harry Potter. So by the time Snape has contact with Harry, he seems a Golden Boy.

Snape, of course, saw what he expected to see, and most of what followed was made to fit with his beliefs. By the same token, so did the other teachers. So it's hard to tell which ones really saw Harry Potter and which ones saw what they expected to.
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> Kathy
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