The Prank / Worst Memory (was Re: Severus and the DADA exam /James)

[jina haymaker]

No: HPFGUIDX 124159


> Finwitch:
<snip>
> Then, James starts talking about a confession - about being out of 
> bounds.
> 
> 'Of course, I could have chosen not to break rules - but that 
would have been murder. Severus Snape was about to meet a Gryffindor 
> Prefect, who was, due to his disease, unable to choose anything 
> else but kill this intruder on his privacy. I, however, had the 
> option to take this student away, to make that choice so I did'.
> 
> And all about saving Snape. "I'm not going to compete with Sirius. 
> We're the best students now, and nothing you do, Severus Snape, 
> will ever change that, because you owe your life to me".


I think that you could be right, Finwitch. That does seem to fit 
the pattern that James basically told that now since he saved his 
(Snape's) life that he owes his life to James. But I still can not 
figure out for the life of me how that could have possibly been 
Snape's worst memory. He was a death eater for crying out loud. He 
must have had many worse memories than that. Or was that memory the 
worst for Harry? Then this brings up another question if that memory 
would have been worse for Harry why leave the Pensieve sitting alone 
in a room with a very curious young boy? 

"collegegirl200521"