Re-reading

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No: HPFGUIDX 76530

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboy_mn at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "manawydan" <manawydan at n...> 
wrote:
> > 1. Snape's worst memory
> > 
> > Chapter 16. It's a sunny day, and the exams are over. HRH go 
looking
> > for Dumbledore and don't find him.
> >
> 
> bboy_mn:
> No comment. 
> 
> But I will add, I don't think the memory in OotP was Snape's worst
> memory. Remember he put several in the Pensieve. But it was the 
memory
> that most moved the plot forward. Harry now has empathy for Snape. 
He
> understands that his Dad, James, wasn't a saint. 
> 
> So I think the intended selection process of the particular memory
> from the Pensieve was suppose to appear random, but as literary fate
> would have it, it was randomly the one that worked best in the 
story.
> I think Snape probably has close to seven years of treatment very
> similar to that one memory.

Laura:

I wonder what kinds of picture of Snape we would have seen if we had 
been able to see the memories of James, Sirius and Remus.  The text 
we have now makes it sound like Snape's worst crime against them was 
being nosy, and they retaliated with some serious bullying and 
humiliation.  But there's always another side to the story.  We know 
that Snape is heavy into the Dark Arts from the moment he arrives at 
Hogwarts.  Any theories about what Snape might have done to them?
>