Oop-Snape's worst memory

[riki827]

No: HPFGUIDX 65861

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "silencescreamsatme" 
<silencescreamsatme at y...> wrote:
> > Maybe if he had been allowed to continue 
> > watching, we would have seen the Whomping Willow Incident. In 
fact, 
> > that was my first thought when the Marauders went and sat 
outside, 
> > that we were going to SEE what happenned that night. I'm sure 
> Snape's 
> > *worst* memory was being saved by the same people who made his 
life 
> a 
> > living hell, but we didn't get to see it being played out.


While it's possible this scene could be classified as "Snape's Worst 
Memory" because it may have led to the Whomping Willow incident, I 
have to believe that Snape has worse memories floating around in his 
head and (as it's been posted) in his pensieve.  Perhaps Rowling 
titled the chapter this way because it's the worst memory Snape would 
want Harry to see (him being publicly humiliated by James), and it's 
the worst memory of Snape's that Harry would want to see (witnessing 
James' cruelty and thus crumbling Harry's deification of his father).

A big thank you to The Leaky Cauldron website for leading me to this 
group's existence.

Riki
(Good little newbie who searched all day to see if this thought had 
already been posted.  If it has, well, I tried, I swear!)