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

[Lynda Cordova]

No: HPFGUIDX 192505

> > Corey:
> > Hey group, just thought I would post a topic on the group cause the
> group's been kind of dull, not many messages. But does anyone think
that if James, Sirius, Wormtail, and Lupin weren't mean to Snape do
you think he would be nicer to Harry?
> >
> >
> Nikkalmati:
> <snip> Second, I doubt Snape would have been sorted into any house but Slytherin.  Wasn't his mother in Slytherin? He certainly indicated
in the train that he hoped to be placed there, so the encounter with
the Mauraders probably made no difference. If they had not picked on
him relentlessly in school I assume the worst memory would not have
> happened. <snip>


Lynda:
I think from Snape's own behavior on the train to Hogwarts and even before,
he wasn't a very nice boy. It's pretty clear to me that he had made his
choice for Slytherin long before stepping foot on the Hogwarts Express that
first day. Not that that gives James Potter and Sirius a pass for the way
they treated him. It doesn't.

Lynda