Snape, Quidditch, and flying was Re: More Snape conundrums...

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No: HPFGUIDX 72063

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Kelly Grosskreutz" 
<ivanova at i...> wrote:
> Mim wrote:

But now I wonder if he is also
> somewhat afraid of flying on brooms.  This is a guy who had at 
least one bad
> experience with brooms.  Aside from this match, we never see or 
hear about
> Snape flying on a broom.  While flying this time around, Harry 
flies so
> close to him that it almost appears for a second that Harry is 
aiming
> directly for him.  I wonder if Snape was actually still recovering 
from what
> he perceived as a close call, and if he is white-faced and tight-
lipped
> because he is scared.  Once he gets back on the ground, of course, 
he is
> able to recover in time to spit on the ground when Harry is carried 
out of
> the stadium on everyone's shoulders.  


Interesting--although I think he's really lreacting to the anger you 
stated, the result of the match and the pointlessness of his actions 
(he made himself very unpopular, according to Quirrel, in insisting 
to ref. that match) there might be something to "The Close Call". 
After reading the bullying scene in OoP it would NOT strike me odd at 
ALL to find out that James, star athelete broom master, took great 
delight in "buzzing" Snape during whatever activities found  him in 
the air. Sort of "Broomstick Chicken" if you will.
I wouldn't put it past James and Sirius to have done it together in 
their "tag team" routine and I'm willing to bet Severus took a few 
tumbles because of it. 
Seeing Harry flying straight at him could very well have shaken up a 
few more "worst memories".

Melpomene