More emotional baggage for Snape

[frankielee242]

No: HPFGUIDX 41431

Snape is trying SO hard to get ahead...

Darrin wrote:
> > Snape has never seemed able to deal with the fact
> > that James had his 
> > life in his hands at one point. Perhaps Snape
> > accurately called 
> > James' motivations -- essentially deciding the prank
> > was going too 
> > far -- but the fact remains, James saved Snape.

Then Amy Z wrote:
> Call me slow, but on my most recent reading of PA it
> finally dawned on me that when Harry says, rightly, "I
> just saved all our lives," that includes Snape. 
>   >>snip<<
> So if Dumbledore tells Snape this, then Snape owes his
> life not only to that insufferable so-and-so James,
> but now to Harry himself.

Wow, I'd never thought of that. There's a good chance Snape was awake
to see where the Patronus came from even though he doesn't tell Fudge
what turned the dementors away. Being the smart lad Snape is, he would
be well aware Harry was in two places at once and therefore somehow
involved with Sirius's escape. Lacking proof, but aware. Perhaps that
plus the office raids is why he keeps a bottle of veratiserum in his
robe pocket...

I don't think Dumbledore would have told Snape anything much
afterwards as the truth revolves around assisting two convicted felons
(Sirius and Buckbeak) and would open the way for blackmail. 

Poor guy. Snape is repeatedly out-done by people he considers beneath
him. Don't forget that Hermione solved his potions riddle guarding the
stone when she was only 11 (SS). Can you image the teasing he must
have gotten from the rest of the staff? McGonagall didn't invent
chess, but Snape wrote that logic puzzle.


Frankie