[HPforGrownups] Snape's Worst memory

[Jordan Abel]

No: HPFGUIDX 156375

On 8/2/06, zgirnius <zgirnius at yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Jordan Abel" <random832 at ...>
> wrote:
> > She shows us that Snape picked the memories so as to give the
> > impression that it was unprovoked.
> >
> > How? IMO, It would be _very_ OOC for Snape to reveal this. It's not
> at
> > all "easy" to give an indication of this without it coming from
> snape.
>
> zgirnius:
> You are proposing, then, that Snape picked three memories he very
> much *wanted* Harry to see, in hopes he would have an opportunity to
> leave Harry alone with them? And continued this ploy even after an
> oppportunity presented itself, and Harry very properly left the
> office with Snape? (On the occasion of Umbridge's firing of
> Trelawney).
>
> First, that seems really complicated and unreliable to me. Second, it
> seemd hugely OOC. Snape did not seem to me to be acting when he
> discoevred Harry viewing the memory. He really seemed not to want
> anyone to know what had happened to him.

If he were really hiding them, why didn't he leave the pensieve in his
private quarters, locked up? Or at least not make a big show of taking
them out in front of Harry... It seems to me quite obvious he was
_goading_ Harry. The only question is whether he wanted him to see
those memories in particular or if he wanted an excuse to stop the
lessons.

And it seems that anyone who can lie to voldemort's face (or
dumbledore's, if you believe in ESE!Snape) and not get caught would
have to be good at faking emotions - that's one aspect of occlumency,
isn't it?

And remember, _everything_ we see is through the harry filter -
suppose Harry assumes that snape will be angry, as long as he puts any
effort at all into acting angry, he can be secretly smug that Harry
might no longer see James in a positive light, no problem