Snape vs. MWPP

[Tammy]

No: HPFGUIDX 115763



> Alla:
> 
> Just a quick comment. You are saying that we cannot judge Snape's 
> behaviour in PoA yet, because we don't know the full amount of bad 
> blood between them and Marauders. I MAY be inclined to agree with 
> you, if you tell me that you agree that we cannot judge James and 
> Sirius baehaviour in pensieve scene yet, because we don't know the 
> full amount of the bad blood between them and Snape yet and it is 
> impossible to judge seven year relationship based on ONE scene.
> 
> Personally, as I said a few times earlier, I have a very strong 
> belief that we will find out about HUGE amount of bad blood either 
> between James and Snape or Sirius and Snape or their families, BUT 
> just as I think that Pensieve scene is despicable on its own, no 
> back story needed, I also think that Snape's behaviour in PoA is 
> quite despicable on its own.

Tammy:

At this point Sirius comes off as pretty much a childish prat, but
he's damaged goods too. I generally feel the need to protect Snape
more so than James and Sirius since they seem to be more well loved
overall by more HP fans. But I fully agree that they can't be judged
from that incident either. 

I think of it this way: If we take Draco and move him forward 20
years, I'm pretty sure that he'd have a few memories he'd like to put
into a pensieve to get rid of (the same as Snape). Say he puts the
memory of Harry tossing mudballs at him from POA (it's the only
example I can think of from the books at midnight, sorry). Looking at
that one memory, Harry comes off as a jerk and the bad guy. 

As for Snape's behaviour in PoA being despicable, we'll have to agree
to disagree on that point. I think that, while he borders on
uncontrolled, a very good argument can (and has been in the past I'm
sure) be made that Snape was acting within normal judgement and
reasoning based on the assumption that Sirius was a murderer and that
Lupin, his best friend, had been helping him get into the castle.
After all, Dumbledore - while being very smart, was fooled before by
Sirius/Peter