LID!Snape rides again (was: High Noon for OFH!Snape)

[Sydney]

No: HPFGUIDX 149974

> Sydney:
> Sirius being innocent is unthinkable for Snape because he's been here
> before-- he's been trying to convince people not to trust Sirius, and
> people didn't listen to him, and people died.  That's why he says,
> "DON'T TALK ABOUT WHAT YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND", and why he screams at
> Harry for suggesting that Snape is prejudiced against Sirius "just
> because he made a fool of you at school", which is probably JUST what
> James said 14 years before, when Snape was trying to convince him not
> to make Sirius secret-keeper.  I think he just can't BELIEVE he's
> still having this conversation.  I mean, picture Harry at some point
> in Book VII if someone was trying to convince him that he was wrong
> about Snape!
>

Neri:
>This is *one* theory. It's a theory that doesn't have any support in
>canon except for your interpretation of this sentence. A sentence
>explained just as well by LID!Snape, which does have strong support in
>canon. Moreover, your theory doesn't have any future, because Sirius
>is dead and Snape's issues with him are of little importance to Book
>7. In contrast, the LID explanation of this sentence leads directly
>to a big BANGy climax in Book 7.

Part II-- 

Sorry, just wanted to get this in-- I don't see how Snape being angry
because people don't believe him about Sirius is even a theory.  It's
canon.  He argues with Dumbledore about it a few pages later.  He
tells Harry that James was too arrogant to believe he was mistaken
about Sirius.  This doesn't even conflict with your LID!Theory.  I'm
just saying you don't NEED the Killer Life Debt to explain why Snape
is angry that people think Sirius is innocent, there's a perfectly
good reason right there in the text.

And as to how this plays in to the future:  well, I'm so very, very
fond of the parallels between Snape hating Sirius, and Harry hating
Snape, that I'm dying to see the Shrieking Shack replayed-- with Snape
as the actually-innocent Sirius, and Harry as the outraged revenger.
Oh, the irony... and Dumbledore was too foolish and trusting to
believe he could be mistaken in Snape!  And Harry is so desperate to
collect reasons to hate and distrust Snape more, and so eager for him
to be the villain!  And there's no possible way that Snape could
actually be innocent!  And Harry's already been practicing his CAPSLOCK! 

-- Sydney