Snape's OTHER Worst Memory

feetmadeofclay feetmadeofclay at yahoo.ca
Thu Sep 18 17:49:30 UTC 2003


No: HPFGUIDX 81079

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, furkin1712 at a... wrote:
> Speaking of Snapes worst memories, we all know Harry never finished 
seeing 
> the first memory...... but Snape put 3 thoughts into the jar. What 
could the 
> other 2 possibly be? 
> Remember they may not be obvious to us now, if JKR is as good as I 
think she 
> is she'll have us guessing until the very last word, which happens 
to be 
> 'scar'.
> Blue Eyes
> 
> 
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

You can't have "other worst memories".  Once one memory has been 
declared to be your worst, semantically it sits alone. It either is 
or isn't.  

You can certainly have a collection of worst memories.  But JKR did 
not entitle the chapter.  "One of Snape's Worst Memories" or "Snape's 
Horrible Memory" or a million other titles that would have suggested 
ambiguity.  The only way for it to be supplanted is for Snape to 
create a memory that is worse than the one we saw. 

This IS Snape's worst memory according to JKR.  She said. It is 
canon.  

Golly






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