I love the audio books too. Jim Dale is fantastic.


Well, I guess you'd have to think Snape is a baddie for this too work, and I don't think he is.

Snape hates Harry because he hated James. Not only is Harry James' father, he looks just like him and is in many other ways just like him. The primary reason he hated James was his arrogance. Now, Harry is possibly the most famous person in the wizarding world before he even enters Snape's classroom. This probably seals the arrogance of the family line (so to speak) for Snape.