MadEye & Malfoy - James & Snape - Everyone & Umbridge

[pickle_jimmy]

No: HPFGUIDX 68204

"Diana Williams" wrote - in response to Pikle Jimmy:
> From: "pickle_jimmy" <kemp at a...>
> 
> Why do we love Snape so much? Everyone is anti-James because we see
> an *edited* snippet of the way he treated Snape, but we see none of
> how Snape treated him, none of the "pre-pensieve event" life.
> 
> 
> Diana:
  <SNIP>

As for "edited" snippet - well, you'll have to convince me that the 
memory was edited 

ME (Pickle Jimmy):
>From Dictionary.Com, the definitions of editing that I believe apply 
to Snape's Pensieve memory

1) To supervise the publication of (a newspaper or magazine, for 
example).

Snape selected this memory from a lifetime of memories - 
he "supervised" it's publication.
 
2) To assemble the components of (a film or soundtrack, for example), 
as by cutting and splicing. 

Snape cut this memory from all those before and after it to add to 
the Pensieve.

3) To eliminate; delete: edited the best scene out. 

Snape eliminated all other memories from review by only adding the 
one we see to the Pensieve.


My point here is not that the memory is tainted (there are enough 
posts on that subject), but that it is only 1 in a million memories, 
and it just happens to be one that sheds a bad light on Snapes arch 
nemesis.

In my original post I tried to show this fact by including 
the "edited" snippet where Harry taunts Malfoy at the end of OOP. 
Without any history to the scene, it looks like Harry is the one that 
is unkind - insulting Draco's father and getting him thrown in 
prison, then drawing his wand on Draco before he has a chance to 
defend himself.

In editing the scene I didn't change it's order, add stuff to it, or 
delete stuff from it... I simply pulled out the bit that showed Harry 
being cruel without showing anything that Malfoy had done in his past 
to warrant the cruelty - Just the way Snape did

Oh... and about Snape - it's not that I don't want him in the book, 
my question regards the justifications of his behaviour in the book. 
Why is his behaviour seen as appropriate or justifiable? Every book 
needs a good mix of the good, the bad and the ugly, book 5 wouldn't 
be the same without umbridge, but no-one is sticking up for her - so 
why Snape?

Pickle Jimmy