OoP: Amanda goes on and on about Snape, was Snape/Lily

[ewdotson]

No: HPFGUIDX 61850

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Amanda Geist" <editor at t...> 
wrote:

[snip]

> 
> I refuse to believe that being turned upside down in public was the 
worst
> thing that James and Sirius ever did to Snape. They didn't turn him 
into
> anything, they didn't poison him, they didn't change him. So there 
had to be
> another factor that made it so traumatic.

Ah, but I'm not convinced that they didn't do anything 
extraordinarily awful to him that day.  While I think the Lily's 
presence defintely didn't help, I'm going to stubbornly maintain that 
if we'd seen a bit further along into the memory, we'd have seen 
Sirius suggest that Snape prod a certain knob on the Whomping Willow 
and follow them that night. (Recall that when Harry sees Lupin's 
condition while taking his OWL, the first thing he wonders if it's 
close to the full moon.  I don't buy that as a throw-away line.)  I 
can even imagine Sirius *really* turning on the charm and convincing 
Snape that he was sorry about turning him upsidedown like that and 
that he was giving Snape the information to try and make up with 
him.  I can imagine that if Snape decided to trust Sirius, that maybe 
he really had changed his mind, the betrayal when James stopped him 
that night would be enough to make this a *really* bitter memory.  
(And would explain why Snape described the prank as having been done 
by "your saintly father and his friends" rather than just Sirius.  If 
they were all there, Snape's blaming the whole of MWPP for the prank 
makes perfect sense, even if Sirius did all the talking.)

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