I got that impression, too--he was more hurt that Harry didn't tell him he was submitting his name.
Snape spent his school years openly experimenting with Dark magic and hanging out with pureblood fanatics, taking Lily’s friendship pretty much for granted, and trying to get James and his friends expelled—likely so he could have Lily to himself without James flirting with her. He pretty much wanted to have his cake and eat it too—keep a Muggleborn friend while openly dabbling in Dark magic. He then spent the rest of his life moping over the fact that he could only have one or the other—the choice he made bit him in the ass. And he was so unaware of Lily’s feelings that he was perfectly content for Harry and James to die so long as he had a chance to get Lily on the rebound. He took it for granted that she would remain a babe in the woods as far as the wizarding world was concerned, and assumed that she would come back to him no matter what kind of stupid crap he said or did. And he was so unwilling to let go of that picture that he assumed that once James was out of the picture, she’d revert to being the little girl Snape always saw her as.
LOVE IT. A-friggin-men.
As for why Snape hates Neville, I really think he just hates all Gryffindors. Why? They took Lily away from him. If she'd been in Slytherin, maybe they could have stayed friends (accoreding to his twisted thinking, anyway). |