OOP: Snape's Memory

[professor_monkshood]

No: HPFGUIDX 61819

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Gregory Lynn" 
<gregorylynn at a...> wrote:
> I just wanted to make a point about Snape's memory.  Memory is not 
an absolutely accurate recording device.  Memory is subjective.  So 
what we saw in Snape's memory is filtered through Snape's 
personality.  As such I imagine he cleaned up his own actions and 
made those of James and Sirius worse.
> ___________
> Gregory Lynn

I would also like to add that the story was confirmed by Lupin and 
Sirius themselves and that seals it for me that Snape's version of 
events was accurate and beyond doubt.

MWPP fans can't say that there must be some backstory behind the 
Memory and Snape must have 'deserved it'.  Lupin and Sirius did not 
offer any mitigating factors (which Harry was clearly hoping for), 
other than the fact that they were fifteen and Snape was into Dark 
Arts.

And please don't call it a prank to downgrade the seriousness of the 
situation.  A prank is something that the victim would find at least 
slightly amusing afterwards.  Or antics design to antagonise the 
authority.  What Fred and George do is prank; what MWPP do is 
bullying.  I'm not amused that McGonagall thought that MWPP were 
like Fred and George.  The whole scene was sickening, a simple and 
clear case of bullying, bordering on assaults.