OoP: What Snape is really doing out there...

[melclaros]

No: HPFGUIDX 66619

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Gino LV.Ledesma <acts
> > 
> I agree Snape didn't act as how a ... "grown up should have acted," 
> which leads me to believe that there's _really_ more to it than 
just 
> his humiliation in the past. Something else (which may run deeper) 
may 
> have caused a far more "traumatic" (or psychologically hurting) 
effect, 
> and this he has not yet come to terms with. Its pretty much obvious 
he 
> didn't like James Potter, so it could also be possible that, aside 
from 
> "backing out of the werewolf prank", James may have done something 
else 
> in the past to Snape which the latter didn't expect.
> 
> Of course... All these are just jumbled guesses. :)
> 
> 


Reading all these posts questioning whether or not this particular 
memory is really Snape's WORST--and why--as "in was there more?" 
coupled with a recent conversation with a latercomer to the 
potterverse who is currently reading book three, a thought occurs.

I wonder if this being his worse memory--certainly he feared Harry 
finding out about it--had anything to do with his high-tailing it out 
of the staff room in PoA when Lupin showed up for the Boggart lesson.


Melpomene