DD's respect for Snape (Was: Unreliable narrator - The Snape Timeline

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 117619


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" 
<willsonkmom at m...> wrote:
> 
>  snipping here and there
> >> > Potioncat
>  "You haven't forgotten that, Headmaster? You 
> > > haven't forgotten that he once tried to kill *me*?"
> > > 
> 
> >>>Nora: 
> 
> > "My memory is as good as it ever was, Severus," said 
Dumbledore  quietly.<<

> Potioncat:
> I have to agree.  The two men know exactly what they are 
talking  about, but we do not. It also sounds the way an adult 
child talks to  an elderly parent who is losing his/her 
memory.(Although I don't  think that is JKR's intent at all. Just my 
own personal life  intruding)<

Pippin:
I think the memory loss implications are absolutely intentional. 
Rita Skeeter refers Dumbledore as "an obsolete dingbat"  in 
print within a month or two of this conversation, and a year later, 
people will be convinced that Dumbledore has lost his marbles. 
It's a good bet such rumors are already circulating. Dumbledore 
is saying, "Don't *you* start."

Pippin