Sirius, Penseive and Snape WasRe: OOP: A few Points on Snape and other things

[sophineclaire]

No: HPFGUIDX 62389

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Brooke" <brookeshanks at m...> 
wrote:
>> 
>  Maybe Snape is a distant relation to Salazar Slytherin (or 
> even Voldemort or Grindelwald?)  Remember Sirius (or was it James) 
> said "it's more that he just exists" in the pensieve?  Maybe 
there's 
> a lot more to that statement than just James & Sirius being 
> heartless... and I thought this whole Snape thing was going to be 
> resolved already!  I think there might be even more we don't know, 
> but I could be wrong... 
> 
> Brooke


I think it's just a heartless statement. hasn't the prevailing subtle 
(or not so subtle) message in the novels been that it doesn't matter 
how far you can trace your bloodlines, but who you are as a person?
Granted, neither Severus or Sirius are innocent, but to target 
someone just because he is breathing is horrid. You know, neither 
James or Sirius or Remus, either then or during the talk in the 
fireplace, ever said "hey, you should have heard/seen said/did 
yesterday" nor did they counter "But his slimey slytherin friends 
always got us back".

In POA, I was willing to give Sirius the benefit of doubt. Maybe 
Severus and his cronies ( because note, Sirius made sure that it 
sounded like Severus' gang had more people than the Marauders mere 4) 
did have a running rivalry with MWPP. But now that opinion, while 
still open, seems less likely. I see Sirius' issue maybe that Severus 
is seemingly the embodiment of everything that Sirius has come to 
dispise in the WW and since he cannot physically do anything to his 
family, he takes it out on the future Potions Master.

 Unfortunately, Sirius is one hell of a hypocrite. Remember in GOF 
and what he says about watching how a man treats his inferiors ( and 
I'll get to Kreacher in another post, it's just that I think he 
should have been gotten rid of before the ORDER moved in) as much as 
Severus may actually be his equal, Sirius considered Severus to be 
his inferior and ensured that he was treated as if he was worthless.
We've seen this in POA when Severus was unconcious and in OotP.

I want to add to the whole slew of Pensieve theories that are out 
there. Now, I think that the memories added are the honest to 
goodness truth as to what happened. It takes in both the subconcious 
and unconcious details, but I also think that the magical environment 
has such an effect on the body that everything within a certain 
radius of the person is also recorded, though not with the knowledge 
of the person. While you have to follow the person who's memories you 
are in, you can probably stay within the edge of the radius and see 
what's going on around the person. The only thing that is subjective 
are the memories that people choose to place in the Pensieve.



-SOphineClaire