memory & Snape

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No: HPFGUIDX 36620

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Vicky DeGroote <degroote at a...> wrote:
>Part of the reason Snape is so heartlessly cruel to Neville could be 
>because he doesn't agree with coddling Neville and fuzzing out the 
>ugly truth.  Maybe he thinks he can jog Neville's memory by 
>antagonizing him.  Maybehe feels he can teach this poor child 
>more if he can get past the forgetfullness and bumbling. 
>This could be one of his wierd ways of caring for the kids.  

Maybe it isn't so weird.  Most counselors today would oppose the 
use of a memory charm, if there were one.  Neville, someday, must
face his memories, if he is to be healthy. The forgetfullness and 
bumbling will continue until then.  The *really cruel* agent in 
Neville's life is Gramma, and her memory charm.  Snape can't 
appeal to Muggle psychology to back him up, but he may know it, by 
intuition or experience.