[HPforGrownups] Re: re:Absolutist/Boggart&Patronus/HappyMarriage/Floo$/Ev...

[James Lawlor]

No: HPFGUIDX 104781

On Wed, 7 Jul 2004 01:35:05 EDT, meliss9900 at aol.com <meliss9900 at aol.com> wrote:
 

> Depends on what you are using to qualify a happy memory.  Sirius nearly
> getting his soul sucked out might be a happy memory for Snape but it certainly
> wouldn't be for Harry.  While Snape hanging upside down showing his skivvies might
> have been Sirius' happy thought (Or possibly Lupin's).
> 
> Melissa

Not to mention that the Patronus Charm doesn't require a memory, per
say, but a happy thought (*Peter Pan flashback!*), which you did touch
upon. If I recall correctly, Harry's first attempts at conjuring a
Patronus weren't successful using strict memories, and during the OWL
exams he focused on the thought of Umbridge getting sacked (which, I'm
sure, could make *anyone* produce a Patronus).

On a somewhat related not that I think I saw brought up in another
thread regarding Snape's Worst Memory - I don't think that was
necessarily his worst memory at all. Certainly, from what Harry knows
of Snapes memories it would be the worst, but what else could have
been floating around in the Pensieve? I expect he has some
particularly nasty memories involving Voldemort and the Death Eaters.
Clearly none of the DEs have a pleasant time of things, evident from
Snape's "convulsively" clutching his forearm and Karkaroff's obvious
terror at the Dark Mark becoming more clear.

- James Lawlor
jlawlor at gmail.com