As I said- Oh it's true Harry ended up with mentors and the like and actual friends, but that's because from the beginning he made good choices. From the beginning Snape made bad ones.
Harry had friends and mentors because he made good choices on his own from the beginning. He accepted those people and their friendship, he actively disapproved of Draco in Diagon Alley before he ever met Ron (who he later chose over Draco again). Before Hogwarts, he showed no signs of being a poorly adjusted kid who doesn't know what's right and wrong, despite his abusive upbringing. Harry made the choice himself to fall in with the right crowd, and that was before he got close to anyone.
The teachers didn't like him much because he was a Proto Death Eater. Can you blame them? I don't think they disliked him because he was anti-social and homely.
As for affection as a baby. How do you know Snape didn't? I don't recall Snape having much of anything against his mother. He even took his personal nickname from her. Do you think she ignored him as a baby? I don't buy that and I think it's drawing a lot of conclusions based on assumption. Harry didn't at all know he had been loved greatly for the first eleven years of his life, which goes back to my first italicized statement.
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Harry had friends and mentors because he made good choices on his own from the beginning. He accepted those people and their friendship, he actively disapproved of Draco in Diagon Alley before he ever met Ron (who he later chose over Draco again). Before Hogwarts, he showed no signs of being a poorly adjusted kid who doesn't know what's right and wrong, despite his abusive upbringing. Harry made the choice himself to fall in with the right crowd, and that was before he got close to anyone.
The teachers didn't like him much because he was a Proto Death Eater. Can you blame them? I don't think they disliked him because he was anti-social and homely.
As for affection as a baby. How do you know Snape didn't? I don't recall Snape having much of anything against his mother. He even took his personal nickname from her. Do you think she ignored him as a baby? I don't buy that and I think it's drawing a lot of conclusions based on assumption. Harry didn't at all know he had been loved greatly for the first eleven years of his life, which goes back to my first italicized statement.