Snape's Memory

[Kira November]

No: HPFGUIDX 64075




From: "professor_monkshood" <professor_monkshood at yahoo.co.nz>
>
>--- 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.
>

A few days ago I was looking at one of the recent crop of books about 
adolescent bullying and it said that chidren who are bullies, and have their 
actions excused by adults as 'kids will be kids" tend to look back at what 
they did and think "It wasn't so bad.  I was just joking, just fooling 
around."

Kids who were bullied look back even as adults and think that it was far 
more serious.  They still hold grudges, and can point to the effect it has 
had on their lives.  I was bullied as a child and it has left a mark that 
lasts to this day.  Snape never had to do anything to draw their fire - some 
kids have a target painted on them that they never did a thing to deserve.  
The few chances I had to get my tormentors in trouble, I took, so I feel 
that whatever Snape did to them was a matter of getting *back* at them.  
James said it himself - Snape existed, therefore James tormented him.

I think that James and Sirius never did understand what they did, even if 
they outgrew the urge to bully.  I think Lupin understands better; I think 
he went along with the other two partly because he was glad it wasn't him 
that was being picked on.  Peter... well he obviously thought everything 
James did was just fine.  And he, too, may just have been glad to be James 
and Sirius's friend rather than target.

Seeing each other's memories could give Snape and Harry common ground, 
though I don't know if either one will make the attempt.

Kira November

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