OOP: More assorted thoughts

[Gregory Lynn]

No: HPFGUIDX 62101

Snape's Worst Memory:

Could it be, perchance, that the reason this is Snape's worst memory is not because of the way he was treated by James but because of the way he treated Lily and the way she treated him?  I mean, if at fifteen he's calling people mudbloods, and if he changes his mind on that issue and comes to fight Voldemort a relatively short time later (say ten years or so) well, something must have triggered the change.  Yeah he grew up, but people grow up without losing their prejudices.  Maybe the little thing that stuck in his mind that triggered that particular change was the way this filthy mudblood defended *him* even though she knew he thought her unworthy.

And note, wasn't it fourteen years ago that Snape came to Hogwarts?  And Harry is fifteen now, and his parents were killed when he was roughly a year old.  So Snape came to Hogwarts around the time Harry's parents were killed.  Sure, it could just be a matter of that being the end of Voldemort's Reign of Terror but it could also be a lingering sense of guilt.

Petunia-like:

Do we know Mrs. Weasley's maiden name?  When Sirius wants to accompany the kids to get on the train, Mrs Weasley purses her mouth in an Aunt Petunia like fashion.

World Reversal:

Anyone find it interesting that Harry's world reversed?  Doesn't he say somewhere that he'd rather be at the Dursleys than remain under the Hogwarts Inquisition?  And Petunia knowing magic things, and dementors showing up in muggle land.

Aspects of Self:

I'm beginning to think that all of this story, this whole everything is just one big metaphor for growing up.  That the separate parts of Harry's world, the Dursleys, the Burrow, Hogwarts, #12, and the various characters and happenings are all just aspects of personality, and at some point the individual whose personality this is has to make a choice about who they want to be and that's why either Harry or Voldemort must die at the hand of the other.  Harry and Voldemort represent opposite (yet, of course similar) aspects of personality and one of them with end up dominating and the other dying off.  I'm going to have to muddle over this one some more as it just occurred to me and I really need to think it through.
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Gregory Lynn


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