[HPforGrownups] Re: If the Marauders weren't so mean to Snape would he have been nicer to Harry.

[Bart Lidofsky]

No: HPFGUIDX 192490

ncfan:
> Erm, I'm not so sure myself. If the Marauders were nicer to Snape, but 
> Lily still ended up with James, I feel like Snape still would have 
> been pretty nasty to Harry. Not as nasty, perhaps, but still nasty; 
> Snape's really not a nice person, after all.

Bart:
     His personality was shaped by his peers, though, and particularly 
his being tormented in a jocks vs. nerd fashion, by the Marauders. There 
are many indications that he is an extraordinarily skilled wizard, on 
the same order as DD and Morty, but because he was tormented so much, he 
was manipulated into joining the DE's, seeing their enemies as the 
bullies who tormented him, and only when Lily became the target did he 
realize what he had gotten himself into. He had something of an 
inferiority complex; this is why he believed that those who could not 
live up to his own personal standards to be lazy, stupid, or both.

     Bart