[JenB]

When did we get sent to the Backroom?

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

Hmm, I didn't notice we had. Paging back through my browser's history, it looks like it happened sometime after post 1413 and before post 1416.

Dang... sorry if I contributed to that.

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

So I'm re-reading Book 1, and I get to the feast after the Sorting, and read this:

... Professor Quirrell, in his absurd turban, was talking to a teacher with greasy black hair, a hooked nose, and sallow skin.

It happened very suddenly. The hook-nosed teacher looked past Quirrell's turban straight into Harry's eyes -- and a sharp, hot pain shot across the scar on Harry's forehead.

So the first time Harry sees Snape (and Snape sees Harry, presumably) their eyes meet... and the last time, as well.

Have to admire a writer who knows her plot, and her characters, that well.