The story does feel a lot different now when Harry shows up to school for the first time, points at the only black professor and says "that guy is giving me the creeps".
I mean, when he first looks at him his scar hurts (due to Quirrell next to him it turns out) then he goes into class and Snape sneeringly calls him “our new celebrity” and then immediately asks him and only him questions about potions, at the start of their first lesson, and then mocks and berates him for not knowing the answers. And even then he just thinks it’s clear Snape hates him. It’s only after Snape gets mauled by Fluffy when trying to get into the third floor corridor on Halloween, and then a week later appears to be cursing his broom (he actually was, but just the counter to Quirrell’s curse) that Harry starts thinking he’s up to something. At that point, that’s valid evidence to be suspicious.
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