[HPforGrownups] Snape can't stand being called a coward--or not

[manawydan]

No: HPFGUIDX 136083

houyhnhnm wrote:
>I hope I don't get in trouble for going off topic, but I had to
>respond to this.  One reason I can't accept an ESE Snape has no basis
>whatsoever in canon and that is the fact that I had a student once who
>was *identical* to the description of the teenage Snape in OotP.
>Skinny, round shouldered, hook-nosed, with long greasy black hair, he
>didn't cause trouble in my class; he never did much of anything at
>all, just slunked in and slunked back out every day.  The other
>students called him Rat Boy!

OK, 'cept I didn't mean Snape!

Rat Boy for me is Peter.

Peter has an undischarged "life debt" to Harry which still has to be
resolved. And he is the only one left who can tell Harry the lot. As one of
the Marauders, he knew the full story about the Prank, the outcome of the
Worst Memory, and any other interesting details about their final 2 years at
Hogwarts (for example, how James and Lily came together and any related
incidents...).

As Traitor and Secret Keeper, he knows about Voldemort at Godric's Hollow
(and we are led to believe that he was there, to retrieve Voldemort's wand).
Maybe he also knows about Snape's reasons for leaving the DEs (there's lots
of canon about Snape and James always hating each other, right from the
outset. That only leaves one Potter for Snape to get upset about Voldemort
killing.)

Who knows, maybe Snape tried to persuade Voldemort to go after the
Longbottoms rather than the Potters.

And finally, as Snape's minder, he was without doubt listening to the
Unbreakable Vow and everything that went before it.

If Snape tries to tell Harry anything, the barrier will slam down straight
away. Harry's not interested in hearing it from him. But Peter's a different
story.

But JKR alone knows all

hwyl

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