(sorry, had to get that out of my system after seeing your icon)
Yeah, I don't think the initial school experience was good for him. Even if he was excited by the castle and the train and everything, he's been trained not to show his awe. And then being sorted into Slytherin? I don't think for a moment that they would have left him alone with the last name of "Snape." They knew he was half-blood, for sure!
And then there were the noisy Gryffindors. And Lily, his only friend, was sorted into a different house...
The whole thing would have been just one level of misery after another, the poor kid.
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Date: 2009-01-10 06:39 am (UTC)(sorry, had to get that out of my system after seeing your icon)
Yeah, I don't think the initial school experience was good for him. Even if he was excited by the castle and the train and everything, he's been trained not to show his awe. And then being sorted into Slytherin? I don't think for a moment that they would have left him alone with the last name of "Snape." They knew he was half-blood, for sure!
And then there were the noisy Gryffindors. And Lily, his only friend, was sorted into a different house...
The whole thing would have been just one level of misery after another, the poor kid.