Snape's memory

[ewdotson]

No: HPFGUIDX 78903

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, RSFJenny19 at a... wrote:
> 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.

Hrmf.  You know, I somehow managed to completely miss that.  Of 
course, if I can weasel for a bit:

"'I'm bored," said Sirius. "Wish it was full moon."
'You might,' said Lupin darkly from behind his book. 'We've still got 
Transfiguration, if your're bored you could test me...'" (US 
hardcover, pg 645)

"You might" what?  It's an oddly constructed sentance.  Lupin doesn't 
say, "You might help me if you're bored."

Of course, if I were to seriously (siriusly? harhar) suggest that 
Sirius was so abominably poor at astronomy that he didnt even know 
when the full moon occured, that might be a bit silly of me.  I 
freely and readily admit that I'm reaching for something that no 
longer looks like it was there.  Oh well, it seemed like such a 
lovely, tidy little theory.  ;)

ewdotson