Snape's OTHER Worst Memory (FINALLY)

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No: HPFGUIDX 81314

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Sydney" <sydpad at y...> wrote:
> 
> Snape is so screamingly obviously from an abusive household, 
though...

Golly: I think this is what is what we are meant to think - or maybe 
it is setting the stage for future events.

The way I see it, that memory has a two fold purpose. 

1. It links Harry and Snape with similar pasts.  The difference being 
that Harry has and will choose to be a good person.  Snape has not.  
All about choice...  

Not sure if I like this message.  It is a mite harder for abused 
children to get a handle on their issues than just to decide to be 
nice.  Often they don't want to behave like their parents - they are 
patterned to.  
  
2.  It tells us something about James, making him less an idol and 
Snape more sympathetic.  I can't say I was surprised but it was very 
well drawn.  

> 3--.  It's Snape's worst memory not because it's the worst incident 
of
> bullying, but the worst incident involving Lily.  Just from my own
> personal recollections, memories that really make me wince aren't of
> the dreadful things that happened to me, but of the events where I
> really wish I'd acted differently.  


I have to say this is the BEST theory I have heard so far.  Very 
plausible and fits with the title.  

Golly