[HPforGrownups] Re: Knowing it was Snape (was: What has Snape seen)

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 119081

> SSSusan:
> Once again we're at cross purposes.  I don't understand why Snape 
> has to be IN each memory.  I have all kinds of memories of people 
> and places and events, and sometimes the pictures I have in my mind
> are of those *other* people and places:  my grandfather smoking a 
> pipe; my mom & dad playing tennis; my brother graduating from med 
> school.  I'm in the audience, as it were, and I don't believe that 
> if someone accessed my memories they'd see ME; rather, they'd see 
> those other individuals *as I saw them*, but I'd be nowhere in
> sight.
> 


But you're not a character in a book.  JKR does not write scenes that
don't mean anything.  If we saw those memories in Snape's head along
with Harry, they are there to mean something about Snape's life.  Why
would they concern Snape's brother?  Or next door neighbours or
whatever?  

Comparisons to real life can only take us up to the limits placed on
storytelling.

Magda


		
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