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

[Irene Mikhlin]

No: HPFGUIDX 64107



Amanda Geist wrote:
> Okay, okay, I *think* I'm the oldest listmember who espouses this as their
> number one favorite theory, so here's my take on this.
> 
> I think it's still a viable theory. It was by NO means proven. What it was,
> was *not ruled out,* which I'll take, we have two more books to go.
> 
> The key thing I focus on here is Snape's memory.
> 
> Givens:
> --he took more than one out; we have no idea what was in the others
> --Harry didn't see the ending of that one
> 
> 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.

<Most excellent post snipped>

I agree it cannot be the worst thing. From Sirius and Lupin's reactions 
it sounded like a typical thing.
So what makes this memory so special?
I think that this day lead to the Shrieking Shack's night, aka the Prank.
Wait, listen! :-)

Lupin is stupid enough to list 3 signs of werewolf out loud. They are in
Snape's memory, so Snape must have heard them, surely?
Now he is the kind of guy who would act on such information as soon as 
possible, and it's not such a stretch of imagination that Sirius was
sixteen by the end of their fifth year.
What a shame Harry didn't have more time. ;-)

Irene