OOP: A few Points on Snape and other things

[peggy baratto]

No: HPFGUIDX 61952

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "professor_monkshood" 
<professor_monkshood at y...> wrote:

> 
> Umm.  In reply to some previous post that Snape's memory is 
> inaccurate or biased, a point was raised that Lupin and Sirius 
> offered no excuse for their behaviour other than silly 
> teens, 'height of cool', and Snape into Dark Arts.  No evidence 
that 
> Snape ever uses it though.  MWPP could have known it in classroom 
> situations, like DADA.
> 

Me:  Um...LOL
No one said that the attack was prevoked.  We just said that it is 
Snape's memory.  He is not going to remember the bad things that he 
did(his personality shows this.  He is quite arogant)...just the bad 
things that happened to him.  We are not protecting James and Black 
here.  Just saying that Snape will remember his past--and the things 
that help him to hate James' memory.  We know from book 2 that Snape 
would like to hate James' memory without having to remember his life 
debt to him.  Dumbledore tells Harry this.  


> What's more, there's no indignant scream from Sirius and Lupin that 
> Snape put them through a toilet the previous day, week or month, 
> even though Harry was clearly looking for some excuse for James's 
> behaviour.  The whole conversation with Lupin and Sirius suggests 
> that there is absolutely zero backstory in the Memory.

Me:  Agreed.


> 
> > I think that Snape relates to Draco, and he does not want him to 
> feel 
> > the same way as he did as a student in Hogwarts.  He was not very 
> > liked by other students (and maybe the staff as well...though we 
> > don't know this).  I think he wants something better for Draco.  
> 
> Doesn't that make Sirius and Snape related...:-) I don't know 
> whether either of them would like it much.  Always under the 
> impression that Snape couldn't really careless about Draco and 
> thought flattery would get Mr. Ferret out of his way the fastest.  
> Have to wait for book 6&7 for further evidence.

Me: Um?  What??????  No one said anything about family relations.  We 
were talking about emotional relationships.  As in " I can relate to 
that." 

> 
> > However,Snape did go out of his way to help Harry many times in 
> this 
> > book after the lessons..
> 
> And what does Snape get for his trouble again?  Harry blaming 
> Sirius's death on him!  Does he ever get a break from anybody?

Me:  Nope.  Poor Sevvie...:::sigh::::


~~~~~~~~~Peggy