Spinner's End--further evidence for DDsMan!Snape??

[lolita_ns]

No: HPFGUIDX 140127

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "cubfanbudwoman" 
<susiequsie23 at s...> wrote:
 *What* about Snape's memory with the Marauders & 
> Lily & himself being flipped upside down do you think Snape would 
have 
> wanted, especially, to prevent Voldy from seeing?  If we 
> assume "Snape's Worst Memory" refers to that one, and not to one of 
> the others he deposited in the pensieve (and which we did not get to 
> see), then why would this be the worst one?  And would it be the 
worst 
> one for Voldy to see?
> 

Lolita:

As far as that is concerned, you will have to join me on the ride 
through the land of Snape the Super Spy :)

There are 2 possibilities. One is that the memory in question was 
indeed kept there safe from LV (I somehow can't bring myself to call 
him - or should I say *it* - Voldie - but you are free to knock 
yourself out :) ). In this case, there is something in the memory that 
probably regards Lily - maybe sth that is to be revealed in HP7 and 
which, in that case, has sth to do with any relationship (friendship, 
love, hate, you pick) that LE and SS might have had.

Personally, I don't think that it's true but hey - it can as well be. 
Rowling hasn't danced to my tune before, she's not going to start to 
now.

The other possibility is sth that I already mentioned in the previous 
post. I said that SS used the Pensieve to store his memories and keep 
them safe from LV. But I also said that the whole 'Snape's Worst 
Memory' thing was a deliberate, clever set-up on Snape's part. In this 
case, the other memories in the Pensieve were indeed kept from LV, but 
this particular one, the one that Harry saw, was handpicked for him. 
Then, the 'Snape's worst memory' title would refer to the memory that 
was not worst for *Snape*, but the one that would be worst for *Harry*.

Let me elaborate.

I've already said that teaching Harry Occlumency was probably the 
hardest task ever given to Snape. And he was probably desperate to 
find SOME way of avoiding it. What better than to drive Harry away? SS 
will have his arse covered both ways - see my previous post for 
details on this.

So, he wants to drive Harry away. How? Oh, *such* a hard task. Potter 
is *so* unpredictable. SS already knows that Harry gets all mushy when 
he is compared with James the Great. And he idolises the Dog too. So,  
hand-pick a memory which shows these two gentlemen in worst light 
possible. Make Potter see what wonderful people his two heroes were. 
Snape has *seen* Potter's memories of being humiliated and tortured by 
the Dursleys. Snape is really not stupid. He doesn't bloody care what 
happened to Harry before Hogwarts. But he saw it. And he's going to 
use it. Maybe he deliberately searched through Harry's mind to find a 
memory which he could somehow use. Then combed through his own 
memories and found one similar to Harry's. Took it out - made *such* a 
show (SS has always been a drama queen, but the Occlumency lessons 
were a bit too much, even for him) of removing the memories out of his 
mind - and thus made sure that Potter would remember it. Left Potter 
alone in the room, with the Pensieve that almost had the 'Look at me' 
note stuck to it. On his return to the office he found Potter - 
surprise, surprise - in the Pensieve. Made him leave the Pensieve. 
Shook him a bit. Threw a jar of cockroaches at him. And, oh, yeah - 
accidentally - said that he won't teach him Occlumency any more. 

Yeah, right. Snape is *such* an impulsive soul. He has never done a 
single calculating thing in his life.

So. To sum up: Snape searches for means to throw Harry out. He sifts 
through the boy's mind, finds a couple of memories to model his own 
to. Finds his own memory that will upset the boy the most - and make 
him sympathise with Snape, of all people. Makes sure that the boy sees 
him storing his memories into the Pensieve. Provides the boy with the 
opportunity to take a plunge. Finds him in flagranti. Then he's oh-so-
angry. 

(We have *seen* Snape really angry - in the Shack scene in PoA - he 
was pissed, he wanted to kill, he screamed at the kids. Later on, he 
screamed at them some more - in the Hospital wing - he was out of 
control. He was treating everyone in the half-mile radius with his 
spittle. In OotP, what does he do? He whispers. He shakes Harry a bit. 
He throws a jar of inexpensive dead cockroaches at the boy, for crying 
out loud! This scene has *SET-UP* written in red letters all over it.)

Finally, throws the boy out. NEVER teaches him Occlumency again. 

Well. If I was the Dark Lord, I would be impressed. If I was 
Dumbledore (provided that my dear professor bothered to tell me - 
since I was already out of school by then. And let's not forget that 
Snape threw Harry out only *after* DD was out of school). I would be 
oh-so-sad, and I would say that it was my mistake that I thought that 
this spiteful man could forget his twenty year-old grudge for the 
greater good. If I was Snape, I would breathe a sigh of relief. And if 
I was Harry, I would be none the wiser.

Finally, if I was the reader, I would speculate endlessly.

So, to cut the long story short, I belive that Snape took the memories 
he wanted to keep safe from LV out of his head and put them in the 
Pensieve long before Harry would showup. Thus, he was safe. As far 
as 'Snape's worst memory' is concerned, I think that he deliberately 
set the whole thing up in order to have a reason to stop teaching 
Harry Occlumency. And that the memory he so conspicuously took out of 
his head in front of Harry every time was the one he intended for 
Harry to see.

Thus effectively keeping himself out of danger.

Lolita.