Harry has physically hurt Snape, and Snape is not angry. He meant it when he said Harry could defend himself in any way. He has seen flashes of Harry’s memories; he has seen the pathos, and he is curious. Jealousy: Snape understands that feeling. Child abuse from people whom, as Rowling hints in this volume, Snape has actually met. So Harry didn’t exactly have the “famous Harry Potter” arrogant childhood Snape has long assumed. So the Sorting Hat considered Slytherin for Harry; Snape didn’t know that before. That would have been interesting, perhaps not in a good way. Hermione: never mind
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