Sirius' words about Snape WAS: What is poetic justice?

[spotsgal]

No: HPFGUIDX 143611

Quick_Silver
> People dismiss Lupin's comment about Snape being jealous of James 
> Quidditch talents as impossible yet I'm not sure it's without merit 
> (of course there other reasons too).

Christina:

We've seen jealousy as a powerful motivator before, but James wouldn't
have had the chance to show off his Quidditch talents right away. 
Harry was the youngest Quidditch player in a long time, so there's no
way James could have played right at the start of school.  I do think
that Snape developed some jealously issues surrounding James and
Quidditch; at the very least, I can see him being very resentful of
the "jock" status James must have had, but I think that these issues
all arose after some initial animosity between James and Snape was
established.

Quick_Silver
> Snape has memories of a boy 
> with a bucking broom (OotP), brooms seem to buck when they're being 
> hexed, the boy is not positively identified as Snape, and we know 
> that Snape knows a broom jinx (since he saved Harry from one in 
> PS/SS). It's within reason that we may have saw James having his 
> broom hexed by Snape
odd
it's in front of a crowd too (maybe James 
> learned humiliation from Snape).

Christina:

That's an interesting thought- I just love speculation on those weird
little snippets that we get from Snape's head.  However, if the boy
was James, I think that Harry would have recognized him easily (he
looks just like his father and picks him out of the crowd in "Snape's
Worst Memory" easily).  Also, Snape's memory features a girl laughing
at the boy on the broomstick; I find it much easier to believe that a
girl was laughing at the skinny, unattractive weird kid than the
popular athlete.

Christina