[HPforGrownups] Snape's memory

[RSFJenny19 at aol.com]

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ewdotson wrote :
> Has anyone else considered the possibility that this is
>Snapes worse memory becase it IS his memory of the Prank, or at least
>the begining of it?  JKR makes a point of Lupin's shabbiness in the
>scene, having Harry wonder if it's close to a full moon.  


now me:

::grins:: What a coincidence, I was just writing my theory on this last 
night! Though the combining of  the worst memory and the Prank together into one 
memory is interesting, but that would make that one memory cover an entire day, 
which is quite long, and one thing that makes it unlikely is Sirius' comment 
that he wished it was the full moon, which I doubt he'd say if it actually were 
coming that evening.

Ffred writes:

<We see Snape put 3 memories in his Pensieve.

Why?

Harry, at one point, is able to see some of Snape's memories. Perhaps Snape
puts the 3 memories in the Pensieve because they are memories which he
thinks it's _really_ important that Harry doesn't find out about. >


me again:

Here is the theory I fleshed out last night, based on Snape being the 
Eavesdropper, but it uses the pensieve memories for support:

Snape is the Eavesdropper in the Hog’s Head.
Snape put three memories in the Pensieve. We know one was the "worst memory". 
There is only speculation on what the other two were, but, by going on all we 
know of Snape in canon, it's safe to attribute the second to when James saved 
Snape's life (God forbid Harry see his father as a hero in Snape's memory). 
So, the third? What must Snape keep from Harry? It has to be important that 
Harry not see. From what we know of Snape in canon, there is no other significant 
event in his life, except whatever it was that made Snape turn to the good 
side (I don't believe there is a significant moment that made him turn to the 
dark side, I believe he was already on that path). JKR has been silent on what 
made Snape switch sides, leaving us to know only that DD trusts him. What proof 
could Snape have offered to DD to prove he was indeed switching sides? I 
believe he provided DD with information - his knowledge of part of the prophecy 
and that he had passed the information to LV - as proof, which is defintely 
something Harry is not allowed to see. Not enough for you? Consider this: just how 
does DD know that the eavesdropper didn't hear the whole thing unless the 
eavesdropper himself told DD? He was listening to the prophecy, so the chances 
that DD also heard the exact moment the eavesdropper was being thrown out are 
quite slim-none.
Others support Mundungus Fletcher as being the eavesdropper, which I concede 
is possible, knowing he was banned from the bar 20 years ago, thus giving the 
bartender reason to throw him out, but this would have to mean MF was once a 
DE, which I do not support. This theory is supported by my 
Aberforth-is-the-bartender-in-theHog's-Head theory, because that means Aberforth can confirm that 
it was Snape there that night who got thrown out. 


~RSFJenny :)


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