Knowing it was Snape (was: What has Snape seen)

[catimini15]

No: HPFGUIDX 118841


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "arrowsmithbt"
<arrowsmithbt at b...> wrote:
(snip)
> Now then SSS(usan), take a deep breath - close your eyes - and
repeat after
> me:
> "It wasn't the child that was Snape; it was the adult. And his wife was 
> Florence. And the boy on the bucking broomstick wasn't Snape, it was
> James. Snape had hexed him."
> 
> Very good. Have a LOLLIPOP. Er, no. On second thoughts take an AGGIE,
> they're low in fantasy.

The more I think about Florence, the more I believe she is a red
herring. It was important, for JKR, to write the pensieve scene in
which Dumbledore summons Bertha's smoky memory for the reason that
Harry could recognize Bertha in the Priori Incantatem Chapter. The
fact that she is telling the Headmaster that she has seen someone
kissing Florence behind the greenhouses and was hexed for it by «he»
is just a funny little passage in which JKR confirms that, according
to Sirius, Bertha Jorkins was, indeed, «a bit dim but (...) had an
excellent memory for gossip» (GoF - Chapter Padfoot Returns).

Nadine