The length of the Pensieve Scene

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 118355


Alla wrote:
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> Yes, Remus and Sirius did not tell Harry. It is just as frustrating 
> as Harry not asking questions about his parents, but Rowling has to 
> have some surprises up her sleeve yet. She knocked James from his 
> Saint!Pedestal. In the next books it will be Snape turn, me thinks.
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Carol responds:
It's a bit hard to knock someone off a pedestal who isn't on one.
Harry hates Snape and thinks Snape hates him. He blames him (at least
for the moment) for Sirius's death and he allowed himself to accept
Ron's and Sirius's theories that Snape was using Occlumency to harm
him ("soften him up for Voldemort," etc.). If anything, Snape from
Harry's perspective is worse than Snape viewed objectively.

I'm not saying that we won't learn bad things about Snape's past--more
likely what he did as a Death Eater than anything he did in school.
But there's no pedestal to be thrown down. If we're going to be
surprised about Snape, it's likely to be in the other direction. Maybe
his deeds as a DE (and why he joined in the first place) will be
revealed in HBP and the reasons why DD (rightly?) trusts him (and why
he left the DEs) will be revealed in Book 7. Or so I hope!

Carol