The Potions Master

Did you notice?

Two teachers, two pedagogies. One is strict and fair enough to bend a rule for a team. The other opens with humiliation and a personal grudge that does not belong to an eleven-year-old. Class is already politics. Fame makes the wrong students stare.

Foreshadowing

Snape’s hatred has a schoolyard history and a reason the last book finally narrates. Reading him as only a bully is the first-year experience. Keeping that reading forever is a choice the text outgrows.

This echo points at book 7. It is a reading note, not a quote.