Snape's Worst Memory

[Blair]

No: HPFGUIDX 87829

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "meriaugust" <meriaugust at y...> 
wrote:
> I am just reading the chapter in OotP when Harry looks into Snape's 
> pensive, and I have just been wondering why Snape chose the 
memories 
> he did to put into the pensive (mainly the one of his OWL and young 
> James Potter tormenting him) and keep the ones (like the one of his 
> father and mother yelling) that Harry could see. I would have 
> thought that the memories of his parents fighting and the bucking 
> broomstick and the lonely room would have been equally as 
> embarassing as the OWL day, while the OWL memory has the added 
bonus 
> of showing Harry exactly how stuck up and arrogant his dad and 
> godfather really were. Any thoughts? 
> Meri

I thought that it was Severus' way of sort of making common ground 
between the two of them -- crappy childhoods.  The only argument I 
can think of is that Severus didn't think Harry would be able to see 
them -- but then why would he have gotten rid of those memories in 
the first place?

Oryomai
--Is there a special ward in St. Mungo's for those who maniacally 
defend Severus?