asking the question

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 84720

Silmariel wrote:
> Given DD's statement, refering to Snape's hate of James, that he as 
> an old man didn't remember that some scars run too deep to be 
> healed, what is Snape's scar?
> 
> Note: to me the answer is not the Prank because I think it does not 
> justify that intensity of hate when your enemy has been dead 14 
> years. To me, that's not a 'scar not to be healed', it is a scar 
> you can heal or not, but depending on the person, not something so 
> deep that it is Ever So Present after 14 years.


I think it's the humiliation of having been publicly hung upsidedown
with his dingy underwear showing. It would be very hard to forgive or
forget something like that, and the pain of having the son of the
person responsible witness it in the Pensieve would be excruciating.
Snape would think that Harry had deliberately chosen to pry into his
most painful memories. I think that scar, in combination with one
created by the Prank (and the resulting life debt), will only heal
when Snape has saved Harry's life in some spectacular way that Harry
openly and gratefully acknowledges, probably near the end of Book 7. 

Carol