Snape/Neville/Trevor

[oddment708 <sunscape@icehouse.net>]

No: HPFGUIDX 53002

  I recently read and re-read the HP books and found myself 
unexpectedly obsessed  with the Potterverse.  As the  only adult 
(45+) I knew of with any interest in the series(other than the 
token "Potter is pure evil relatives"),I was getting worried about my 
grip on reality ("Mental, Ron sighed, shaking his head...."). On my 
way to St. Mungo's I stumbled (on the hem of my robes, no doubt) into 
HPfGU and have been lurking here with relief and delight for a couple 
weeks.....
  Has anyone wondered if Snape's constant picking on and threatening 
of Neville (and Trevor) may be more than plain meanness? Like maybe 
he wants to break through a memory charm using pressure, 
psychological torture or panic? Or expose Trevor as something other 
than a toad? I'm not sure how you break a memory charm, but it 
appears to involve pain or suffering or survival instinct as in 
Neville's magical ability revealed when he was dropped as a small 
child or LV's comment that the methods he used to extract info from 
memory charmed B. Jorkins left her body and mind useless. Or maybe I 
just want darkly conflicted, mysterious Snape to be good intentioned.

CP-former lurker