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

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No: HPFGUIDX 192507

Shelley: 
Aunt Petunia's reading of the young Snape was 
that he was a nasty boy, 

Crescent: 
And Petunia raised Harry calling his father, James, a worthless drunk. In 
fact, I have yet to hear of anyone that Petunia praised other than her 
Duddykins. So while you could be completely correct about Snape's 
character, using Petunia to back it up is kind of pointless. 

Shelley again: 
Except that we don't only have that opinion from the adult Petunia- we have Snape being mean to Petunia from Snape's own memory, and that memory didn't lie that he was mean to her, at a time when she wasn't being mean to him. She was a very young child at the time of that memory, and not the nasty adult you see her being through Harry's eyes later on. And Snape was a young child in that memory, one who didn't have very good social skills. 


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