The bucking broomstick (Was: Snape's house)

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No: HPFGUIDX 94660

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "severelysigune" <severelysigune at y...> wrote:
> 
> 
> Sigune here:
> I find this point of view mighty interesting - like your suggestion 
> that the hook-nosed man in the other memory is Snape himself rather 
> than his father. Both are perfectly possible, and it is a wholly 
> different way of looking at the evidence.
> However, I interpreted the scrawny boy to be Snape because of the 
> violence of his reaction to Harry. If I remember correctly (I haven't 
> got my book with me), Snape doesn't say "That will do, Potter", 
> or "Yes Potter, you can stop that now" - he shouted "ENOUGH!". If the 
> boy on the broomstick is James, struggling because of a jinx cast by 
> Snape, then the memory should be one of triumph and there is no need 
> to react so violently.
> Undermining my own argument, I am ready to concede that maybe he 
> begins to shout for fear of Harry seeing the memory that comes next. 
> But still.
> 


Glad to have given you something to think about.

I  generally work to the principle that it's dangerous to accept the things
JKR tells us at face value. There's a good chance she's in the process of
lowering the knitted ovine product  over  our eyes at least half the time. 
 
Besides, it makes for a nicely rounded set of replays; Snape bucks James
off, James suspends Snape in an embaraasing position. Snap.

Also there is the nature  of memories - don't know about you but most
of mine are from an observers point of view, like watching a video. So 
there is a chance that very few of Snape's actually feature Snape as the
central character. 

I love being devious.

Kneasy