[HPforGrownups] Re: Snape's worst memory: the Pensieve Scene

[pjuel13 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 68831

DG writes regarding Snape's boggart:

>assuming that a Boggart can tap into the true 
>essence of a person's deepest fears and emotions, not only those 
>things people convince themselves that they believe or feel-- I'm 
>willing to bet that the Boggart would probably turn into the Dark 
>Lord himself.

And then backs that up with a thoughtfully constructed argument in support of 
this view that concludes with:

>But in fact, it was this decision --to follow the Dark Lord-- that  
>forever sealed his fate to spend life as a haunted, joyless man, 
>consumed with bitterness (and probably guilt), disrusted by almost 
>everyone, at home in neither world.  

It's a really compelling argument but I think I might have to disagree. 
Rather than his boggart become Voldemort, I'm more inclined, for the same reasons, 
to think that Snape's boggat would be Snape himself, possibly at the age he 
was while an active Death Eater, or possibly as he is now but proudly wearing 
his dark mark. 
The immensity of the descion to turn away from that life, that version of 
himself, by going over to Dumbledore and his ongoing devotion to control of his 
emotions and himself, would seem to me to indicate that DeathEater!Snape is 
what Snape would fear and dread most most. 
Gosh, what a scene that would be in Book 6 or 7.

>Maybe Snape will emerge, at the very end, as a kind of Lash LaRue of 
>Wizardry
So does that mean that Filch is his Fuzzy St. James? 

-Stripedog










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