My husband's Snape observation

[Amanda]

No: HPFGUIDX 73948

My husband, Jan, is working his way through OoP. He made an 
observation which totally missed me. This is superbly amazing because 
not only am I a L.O.O.N., it's about *Snape,* for God's sake.

I can't imagine nobody else caught it; in fact, I'd be amazed if this 
hasn't been done to death four ways already, given our numbers and 
post volume and all. But the woeful fact is that I haven't been 
anywhere *near* keeping up with posts.

I am therfore posting anyway. I truly apologize if this was a popular 
item of analysis only two days ago. I am really so amazed that I 
missed this, though, and wanted to share.

Jan has gotten through the pensieve scene. And his basic take is that 
James was your basic BMOC (big man on campus), a jock, like the guy 
that walks around with a football under his arm. Yeah, I got that 
much. But the thing I missed was what he considered the obvious 
parallel to Snape's being taunted--not Harry in the graveyard, but 
the DEs at the World Cup. Down to the same spell, he said, and he's 
likely correct; the Robertsons were held in midair and at one point, 
the Mrs. was flipped upside down.

I had completely missed this, and found it chilling, especially the 
similarity of treatment of the victim. I'm at work now, can't analyze 
much, but I was stunned that I'd totally missed this and wanted to 
get other thoughts. Thoughts?

~Amanda