I think DD suffered from a lot of the same stuff that Sirius did -- forgetting that Harry was not a representation of someone or something else, but an actual individual. Whereas Sirius saw him as James reborn, DD saw him as The Hero Of The Wizarding World. Why else keep allowing all of the stuff that Harry got away with? Rather than treating him like a child, and then a teenager, and now a young adult, he always treated Harry like something "special" with a "destiny".
And I think this is where DD made his fatal mistake. No one could miss his strange treatment of Harry, and it's gone on for 6 years now, and been obvious to everyone else since DD turned the Slytherin's party in the first book into a Gryphindor party at the very last possible second.
I mean, how could he expect not to have disatisfied students because of that (hell, I was annoyed because of that - I don't think you do that to kids)? How could he expect Snape, who obviously loved his students just as much as Minerva loves hers, to stand back and patiently watch while James Potter's Son got all the glory for a bunch of dumb luck?
(Although I'm in the camp of people who figure that DD and Snape were in agreement about what would happen at the top of the Astronomy Tower, DD ensured that Harry and Snape would never, ever trust each other simply because he refused to explain to either one why he trusted the other.)
This is a very long comment... sorry, I'm over tired, and have been thinking a lot about this for the past while. Work is very boring.
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And I think this is where DD made his fatal mistake. No one could miss his strange treatment of Harry, and it's gone on for 6 years now, and been obvious to everyone else since DD turned the Slytherin's party in the first book into a Gryphindor party at the very last possible second.
I mean, how could he expect not to have disatisfied students because of that (hell, I was annoyed because of that - I don't think you do that to kids)? How could he expect Snape, who obviously loved his students just as much as Minerva loves hers, to stand back and patiently watch while James Potter's Son got all the glory for a bunch of dumb luck?
(Although I'm in the camp of people who figure that DD and Snape were in agreement about what would happen at the top of the Astronomy Tower, DD ensured that Harry and Snape would never, ever trust each other simply because he refused to explain to either one why he trusted the other.)
This is a very long comment... sorry, I'm over tired, and have been thinking a lot about this for the past while. Work is very boring.