The Key to Snape?

[also_september_19]

No: HPFGUIDX 139147

Derek:
> <SNIP> 
> 
> > I think it's his worst memory because he called Lily a Mudblood.


Allie: 
> I LOVE it!!!  Hurting someone, even by accident or by ignorance, 
can 
> cause such guilt, and he threw that at her on purpose.  
<snip>




Also-September-19th

I've had this same thought about whether that memory was *in fact* 
Snape's worst.  It is certainly something he wouldn't want Harry 
(specifically James' son) to see.  But there *are* other memories in 
that pensieve.  And this always seemed an unlikely worst...  
Embarassing.  Shaming even.  The sort of thing you would rather no-
one ever find out, and still makes your toes curl when you think 
about it (I've definately got a couple of those from High School).  
But the worst thing that's ever happened to you?  I'm not so sure 
about that...  

I also think that if I were Snape - and I had an adolescent boy in 
front of me, who I hated because his father had gotten the best of me 
(and then saved my life).  My big advantage in this scenario is that 
I'm grown up now - and the kid in the room is *just* a kid.  The last 
thing I would want him to see would be *me* being just a kid.  I'd 
loose all my superior advantage!  All the mystery of being "grown 
up". I've always thought that was probably the main reason that 
particular memory went into the pensieve with the other two to be 
protected from Harry.

Just a thought...

Also-September-19th (Denya)