Knowing it was Snape (was: What has Snape seen)

[cubfanbudwoman]

No: HPFGUIDX 119084


SSSusan:
>>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.<<
 
Magda: 
> 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.

SSSusan:
Absolutely the things she writes are there because they mean 
something.  But she hides things from us all the time!  We never know 
WHERE those hidden stories or clues are coming from.  Isn't that part 
of the fun?  Trying to figure out *where* she might have laid a clue 
which isn't so obvious?  

The comparison to real life was there only to show that the person 
himself doesn't have to APPEAR in the memory.  I don't see any reason 
for storytelling to be different from real life in that.  

Siriusly Snapey Susan