Mixed feelings and lots of questions about OOP

[darrin_burnett]

No: HPFGUIDX 66092

Kupukello

> It is mentioned in OOP several times that Snape puts THREE memories 
> in the pensieve before starting the Occlumency sessions with Harry. 
> When Harry looks in the pensieve he sees just the one with Remus and 
> James tormenting Snape before Snape stops him. What are the other 
> two memories? The second memory could be that time when Sirius 
> tricks Snape into to the tunnel leading to Shrieking Shack and James 
> saves him from Remus (that's propably something Snape does not want 
 Harry to see) but what is the third memory? 

I don't know, but this is a very good question. It's also possible that Snape's 
real purpose and agenda are hidden there.



> What annoys me the most is that instead of revealing at least 
> something about the history JKR leaves us with even more unanswered 
> questions. We still know absolutely nothing about Harry's 
> grandparents, the Potter fortune, heck, we don't even know which 
> houses the Marauders and Lily belong!

I've seen this complaint in various forms and I wonder. Did people forget this 
is a seven-book series? I never expected book 5 to answer all the questions.  

>Snape calls Lily in his memory "a > filthy little Mudblood" and Lily does not 
object.

I must really take exception to this.  He calls her a mudblood, she turns it 
around on him, calls him "Snivellus", insults his underwear and leaves James 
and Sirius to do what they will. When Snape catches Harry in the memory, the 
past Snape is about to get de-underwearized, and Lily isn't moving to stop it.

She's put James down, but she no longer offers her protection to Snape. 
(remember, before, she'd actually pulled her wand on James)

Sounds like she's pretty ticked to me.

> 
> It bothers me that Harry is so thoroughly shattered because of 
> Sirius death (Yes, he died. I checked. Everybody else says something 
> like "He is gone" or "He can't come back" but Dumbledore actually 
> uses the word "dead": page 727 UK version: "It is my fault that 
> Sirius died"). Harry finds about Sirius and him being Harry's 
> godfather first in book 3. After that he receives just a few letters 
> from Sirius, spends a couple a weeks with him and that's all. In my 
> opinion Remus is far more closer to Harry than Sirius ever was.


Remus is nowhere to be found in GoF and Sirius has a huge role in that book.  
Early in the story, Harry finds himself wanting to talk to someone like a parent, 
and hits upon Sirius.

Furthermore, Sirius is his father's best friend.  Sirius was a connection that 
Harry was counting on for a long time, someone who could link him to his 
folks.

Add in that Harry blames himself, and that Harry not only mourns the death, 
but really, the waste of a life -- Sirius spent a good portion of his life either in 
Azkaban or on the run.

Darrin