Deatheater Snape

[melclaros]

No: HPFGUIDX 99647

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Ally:

> > Problem:  surely Harry would have recognized the adult as Snape, 
no?  
> > The text has him see a dark haired man with a hooked nose.  If 
it was 
> > Snape yelling at his wife, why wouldn't Harry have immediately 
> > recognized him and the text reflected it?  I think it was 
probably 
> > Snape in the corner there as a child and either a father or 
> > grandfather in the foreground yelling at the mother. 
> 
> Kneasy:
> Ah. You're not as suspicious as I am. There's an interesting 
difference
> between the three memories and the "Worst Memory" that caught my
> eye.
> 
> Harry has no difficulty in identifying a teenage Snape in the 
latter, but
> in the group of three *nobody* is identified. Why not? Could it be 
that
> JKR is allowing (encouraging) us to jump to the wrong conclusions?


JKR is ALWAYS allowing/encouraging us to jump to wrong conclusions. 
That having been said I have to disagree with you on the identity 
of "the crying child". Severus himself simply did not have the TIME 
to conjure up a family. A wife MAYBE--although I seriously doubt it 
given the picture we have of him as late as 6th year and his 
presumed history immediately following his leaving Hogwarts. He 
certainly did *not* have time to produce a CHILD. A baby, maybe, 
perhaps even a Toddler, but even HARRY was only 15-18 mos old at the 
time of VD's downfall and we're told that Snape switched sides well 
before that. If the destruction of his family was his reason for 
changing, there had to be some Time-turner hanky-panky going on to 
accomplish it.


Mel, who really hates to have to disagree with Kneasy