Severus and the DADA exam /James

[M.Clifford]

No: HPFGUIDX 123738


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "finwitch" <finwitch at y...> 
wrote:
> 
> So Severus... he was into Dark Arts, as Sirius told Harry long 
> since...
> 
> Hmm.. Was he reading his exam for the grades' sake or just reading 
> question ten over and over, because it had nagged to him about 
> something?
>

Valky:
I have to say, finwitch, I have had a sneaking suspicion of this all 
along. Being asked to name several ways to spot a werewolf has a 
definite possibility of becoming a catalyst in Young Severus 
realising he *knows* a werewolf, after all that's exactly the way 
Hermione did it, and in an assignment SET by Snape, no less.

A while ago, I posted that the Duelling club scene where Snape 
*embarrasses* Lockhart with the expelliarmus spell has a strangely 
familiar resonance with the pensieve scene.
Again, with this, Snape sets an essay asking the *same question* 
that was on his OWL DADA exam, with, Remus posits, the intention of 
calling the familiarity of the list to a students mind.

We've been looking at seriation a lot in this debate and to be quite 
honest I am definitely beginning to believe that we are seeing a 
series of Snape drawing on his life experiences with the Marauders 
as an adult. So I am just about banking you are right on this one.