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

[nrenka]

No: HPFGUIDX 117623


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> 
wrote:
>
>> Nora: 
>> 
>> "My memory is as good as it ever was, Severus," said 
>> Dumbledore quietly.

<snip>

> 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."

Oh, but there really has to be more to it than that.  What's so 
frustrating is that it's pretty obvious that comment is made and 
being taken on a number of different levels, and I don't think we're 
privy yet to all of the implications.  I'm tempted now (at this time 
of the day, and in a near homicidal rage at the people who won't stop 
yapping in the library :) to, ummm, try to read it in light of What 
We Knew Then and What We Know Now, which makes the 'second chances' 
an ironic theme, and a strong one.

That is to say, it's ironic that Snape is so dead set on a particular 
personal injury from the past, and insistent that no second chances 
be given in this case (I stand by my reading of the timeline and his 
comments to Fudge about Dumbledore as following *upon* this 
discussion, although I know it's not clear), as we at this point do 
not know about Snape's own offenses and the gift of a second chance 
granted to him.  [I'll be charitable and not ponder further 
extrapolations here.]

So, the point of this comment might be primarily "I gave you one, 
don't whine when some other ones get given out".  But I can't quite 
shake the feeling that it's also some kind of direct commentary upon 
the perception/actuality split of what happened with the 'murder 
attempt/schoolboy prank/god only knows what it was'.  With the 
overlaying comment of "You *know* that I know what I'm doing, 
Severus..."

No, she wouldn't answer any questions relating to this issue, would 
she...

-Nora really, really wants the ability to Silencio! people right 
about NOW