Snape's treatment and pensieve (was: Re: YES ( was: Did Snape "murder" Dumbledore?))

[Fabian Peng Krrholm]

No: HPFGUIDX 138330

Sherry Gomes wrote:

>>Um, what would you call his treatment of Neville then, if you think he
>wasn't really that bad?  He was completely emotionally abusive to that boy!
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Fabian now:

Well ok, he's really mean to Neville, and Harry. What I wanted to say 
was that he's much more unfair than he's mean. Of course, he is, at 
least in the first three books, extremely pathetic. The fact that he 
hasn't been able to put aside the way Harry's father treated him many 
many years ago is just sad.
 About "Snape's Worst Memory", to what extent do you think the Pensieve 
shows what really happened? Does it 'remember' things the way they 
happened, or the way someone remembers the events? Since Snape removes 
his 'worst' memory for every Occlumency lesson, it makes me think that 
the memory is in the way it was in his minds. Which means that any 
insult he might have made to James/Sirius/Lupin, might have been removed 
from it. And if it's not, then Harry's father is really not a nice man 
at all, no better than the grownup Snape I'd say.

/Fabian