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> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Cindy C." 
> wrote:
>> Underwear
> > is often considered a bit of a gag, really. Mildly embarrassing, 
to
> > be sure, but hardly the climax of what is supposed to be Snape's
> worst
> > memory ever. Worse than being a DE. Worse than the Prank. Worse
> > than whatever he did for Voldemort at the end of GoF.
> 


 I don't know, Cindy, if exposing of underwear is really just a gag, 
especially for young people as old as fifteen.  It was precisely the 
underwear part that made me cringe when I read that chapter. And the 
subsequent threat of
 stripping made the scene even more disturbing. I had the same
 reaction as Harry: "This is sick." Am I the only one who thinks that
 the whole scene carries a certain whiff of unhealthy sexuality?
 Another point is that if people who can be good sports about
stripping of underwear exist at all, Snape, judging from what we' ve
 seen of his character, is certainly not one of them. Demonstrating
Snape's graying underwear to the world, James thus exposed his poor
 physique, his powerty, made him look totally helpless and vulnerable,
and, as you rightly noticed, made all this look funny--for some
onlookers. Surely, having people laughing at his torturous and 
humiliating position for somebody with Snape's craving for respect is 
worth than a death threat.

Twoflower2