Snape's worst memory...you are kidding right?

[Joe Goodwin]

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Here is something that has bothered me for a while. Could the scene in the pensive really be Snape worst memory? A high school(in the US) altercation with a couple of guys he didn't like? Doesn't that sound way to much like those Jerry Springer commercials "Got issues from high school and want to confront your old schoolmate?"
   
  That just seems way to lame even for Snape.
   
  Now lets say it was because Snape was madly in love with Lilly Evans. Wouldn't the day she married his worst enemy be a worse memory? Or how about the day she gave birth to James Potter's son, the son that should have been his(in his mind)?
   
  Honestly, how can that be the man's worst memory? He was a Death Eater, he had to have seen some gruesome things. If we believe he was one of the first people to Godrics Hollow then he saw James and his beloved(maybe) Lilly laying murdered. Shouldn't that be is worst memory?
   
  Now I have no love at all for Snape but even I cannot see Snape as so sad and pathetic that the pensive scene really was his worst memory.
   
  Joe