OOP - If Snape wanted Harry to see and other Snape stuff.

[crisagi1]

No: HPFGUIDX 65352

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "darrin_burnett" 
<bard7696 at a...> wrote:
> If Snape wanted Harry to see the Pensieve memory, then I think the 
credibility 
> of the memory has to be questioned.
> 
> If Snape wanted Harry to see what an arrogant git his father was 
and left the 
> Pensieve out knowing Harry would be too tempted (as would most of 
us, if we 
> were truly honest with ourselves) not to look, then it follows that 
he had a 
> specific memory in mind.
> 
> And if so, that means he would have controlled when the memory 
started and, 
> through his intervention at the end, when it stopped.
> 
> It is even possible he could have doctored it.
> 
...
> 
> But again, if this was Snape's master plan, then it follows that he 
knew, to the 
> second, what he wanted Harry to see. It further is possible that 
whatever is 
> before and after contains images he didn't want Harry to see.
> 
> And if he wanted Harry to see how bad his father and Sirius were,  
perhaps 
> he didn't want him to see how bad Snape himself was,.
> 
> For the record,  I do not believe Snape wanted Harry to see it.  I 
think his rage 
> was just too pure and the memory too painful. Perhaps Harry's view 
of James 
> would now be clouded, but I don't think Snape would view Harry 
witnessing 
> such humiliation as a worthwhile trade-off for that to happen.
> 
> So, I believe the memory, and I believe Snape wanted that memory 
nowhere 
> near Harry's eyes.
...
> Darrin
> -- Continually amazed at how every character with an evil agenda 
has at least 
> one apologist and every character with a good heart has at least 
one 
> detractor.>


As I recall in the book, Snape and Harry were about to start the 
Occlumancy lesson when Montague finally showed up after being lost 
for about a week(thanks to the Weasly twins).  Malfoy goes in to 
get Snape and questioned why Harry was there with the Potions Master. 
They cover up by saying remedial Potions lessons.  This is a 
situation, I am sure, that neither Snape not Harry wanted.  Thus I 
believe that the memory was not let out on purpose for Harry to 
find.
 
Then again, memories are a funny thing.  After years of hatred and 
humiliation, Snape may have actually made things out worse in the 
memory than really happened.  This is not a fresh memory being 
plucked out of his head but one 20 years in the making.

Harry on the other hand, we know since the CoS, has a very 
curious nature.  In AD's office he didn't know what a pensive was, 
and thus was pulled in by mistake.  In this case he knew fully well 
what he was peering into.  I think that Harry was just so fed up 
about being kept in the dark about everything, and this was one way 
to get some information about what was going on.  He thought that 
Snape might have been taking out the memories of things AD did not 
want him, Harry, to know about.  This is just my 2 knuts.
 
Crissy