There are times I could cheerfully throttle our beloved Headmaster, and this was definitely one of them. Snape and Harry are known all through Hogwarts for their mutual loathing, and although I can see Harry's side of things, I can also see Snape's point of view. Like it or not, Harry has been favoured from the day he hit Hogwarts, and Snape sees him as an arrogant show-off. Had I known at the beginning how much Snape dislikes show-offs, I'd have kept my head down more in his class, instead of trying so very hard to show how much I knew. This is where being Muggleborn is a definite disadvantage---an elder sibling or two who'd been through Hogwarts, who could have given me run-downs on the teachers and their various styles, would have been very useful indeed.