Hyperbolic Chapter Titles and Snape's worst memory

[junediamanti]

No: HPFGUIDX 82218

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "davewitley" 
<dfrankiswork at n...> wrote:
> Golly wrote:
> 
> >> Personally, I find it suits my interpretation of the Pensieve 
scene 
> that it really *is* Snape's worst memory: any misdirection 
concerns 
> what *aspect* of that scene makes it the worst.  However, it seems 
> to me perfectly consistent with the narration for there to turn 
out 
> to be a still worse memory - say, seeing a fellow DE killed by 
> Voldemort because V blames him for something Snape has done in his 
> capacity as spy, because we can read the title as Harry's POV.
> 
> David

June thinks:

Take a careful look at these books...

Who is actually telling the story?  We don't actually know this 
until all the story is told cf.  Lord of the Rings, the Silmarillion 
etc.  In LOTR it is Frodo, then Sam.  

It is not Snape's worst memory IMO until he comes out and says so.  
It is at present (by which I mean what we know of canon) Harry's 
knowledge of what he believes to be Snape's worst memory - Harry 
sees it from his own viewpoint of embarrassment.  I don't recall 
Snape saying anything along the lines of "You will not tell anyone 
about this - it is my worst memory!"  

Snape put the memory in the pensieve because he didn't want Harry to 
see it. QED.  He also put two other memories in there as well - 
which we don't see.  Why hide these memories from Harry?  

Elementary my dear Watson. 

Cherchez la femme.

Why isn't the memory of Snape nearly being eaten by Lupin there?  
Cherchez la femme.  

The famous "prank" - absent.  

Who is in there - Lily Evans.  It is Snape's memory after all.  What 
is in the other memories - I think they are Snape's  memories of the 
following:

His "near miss" with Lily Evans - yes I know what he said to her in 
the pensieive scene.  Do you think he wasn't sorry?  Do you think he 
didn't try to apologise?  

Her death.  Think this over.  He was the eavesdropper at the Hogs 
Head when Trelawney gave the prophecy.  He was also the one who 
tipped Dumbledore off as to Voldemort knowing the prophecy.  
Otherwise, why is Dumbledore so reticent as to who these people were 
when he tells it to Harry?  "Oh, Harry, Professor Snape was the one 
who fitted up your parents to Voldemort, but never mind, he tipped 
me off that they were a target and I tried to save them..." and sure 
Harry's just going to deal with this - no problem.

Go to the Fantastic Posts and Where to Find Them part of this board. 
Read what Tabouli wrote about the Snape/Lily issue.  If you want the 
novelised version, read this

http://www.schnoogle.com/authorLinks/Azazello/

or this

http://www.fanfiction.net/~azazello

I wrote the buggers after all, but after reading what I read on this 
board.  All inspired by Fantastic Posts and Where to Find Them...

He hated the underpants thing - wouldn't you?  But there was worse 
in his life by far.  That's not fanfic - that's logic.  

Go figure.

June

"The mind is its own place,
and can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven"

John Milton, Paradise Lost