Snape's house

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No: HPFGUIDX 94636

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jlv230" <jlv230 at y...> wrote:
> 
> snipped
> I know I am arguing against myself here, but it seems that Snape 
> wasn't very good at Quidditch anyway so his hopes of getting on the 
> team cannot have been great, if we take Snape's memories to be any 
> guide:
> "suddenly Harry's mind was teeming with memories that were not his: 
> ......a girl was laughing as a scrawny boy tried to mount a bucking 
> broomstick" OotP
> This passage always makes me feel very sorry for Snape though.  I 
> wonder why JKR chose these particular scenes?  It does show us that 
> Snape was very lonely, however, and would perhaps jump at the chance 
> to join an exclusive gang of Slytherins who hated the rest of the 
> world as much as he did.

I've long suspected that that this memory is not as straight-forward as
it appears. It's Snape's memory but is  it a memory *of* Snape?
Given that the feud between Sevvy and the Marauders was of long
standing, this could be something else.

James is the Quidditch hero, the broomstick supremo. What  better way
for Snape to humiliate  him in public than to curse his broomstick? 

IMO the scrawny boy is James, the laughing girl Lily.

Kneasy