[HPforGrownups] Re: FakeMoody, Snape, Legilimency, and Motives

[Kathryn Jones]

No: HPFGUIDX 132154



> KarentheUnicorn's Reply:
> 
> Now, I don't know about that, its generally hard to tell, One can
> read this scene quite a few ways, my take on it is at this point in
> the scene:
> 
> Roll Scene:
>  > "'Course Dumbledore trusts you," growled Moody. "He's a trusting
> man,
>  > isn't he? Believes in second chances. But me - I say there are
> spots
>  > that don't come off, Snape. Spots that never come off, d'you know
>  > what I mean?"
>  > Snape suddenly did something very strange. He seized his left
> forearm
>  > convulsively with his right hand, as though something on it had
> hurt
>  > him.
> 
> CUT SCENE:
> OK, to me it looks like Snape had a very real reaction to what Fake
> Moody said, as if he was shocked and scared. I don't see Snape as a
> crying and whippering kind of person. He always seems very tightly
> wound to me, like a spring, and whenever its at the breaking point
> it does something really strange and sudden....meh, or..thats one
> way of looking at it.
> Though, your take is very resonable to, they do stare at each other
> a lot, but that can also be seen as a test of wills, sizing up your
> opponit. It just seems like, Snape already knows Moody and they
> might butt heads much like he does with Sirius...but Moody is much
> older, and sometimes Snape appears to have a problem with people his
> own age and younger, and he tends to be more standoffish or willing
> to back off quicker when its someone older or more experienced. Meh,
> thats just one idea I suppose.
> KarentheUnicorn

   Kathy writes:

     I have wondered if Snape grabbing his arm "as though something on 
it had hurt him" was just that.  Perhaps it was similar to the pain in 
Harry's scar while talking to Umbridge.  A matter of timing.  Perhaps 
Voldemort happened to call his Deatheaters at that moment in time and 
Snape was forced to break off the conversation.  I do like the 
Legilimency idea though and I am not a huge proponent of the Snape 
spying theory.  It could be that V activated the mark at that time to 
torment Snape for not being available to him.  We also know that Snape 
is now in the Order and has known the real Moody for some time.  It 
could also be that this conversation warns Snape that something else is 
going on. I don't believe that Snape is afraid of Moody.
KJ