[HPforGrownups] Re: The Huge overreactions from a five minute time span.

[Karen]

No: HPFGUIDX 150136


On Mar 27, 2006, at 5:10 PM, catherine higgins wrote:

> Catherine now:
>
>   There's another perspective missing here. This is "Snape's worst  
> memory". Not "James' worst" or "Sirius' worst". This is the worst  
> thing that, according the JKR, ever happened to Snape. It's an  
> awful thing to have had happened to him, and Harry rightfully  
> wonders about what a terrible person his father was. But this was  
> one scene that we saw. We also hear from Sirius when Harry  
> questions him about it, that Snape knew more curses when he arived  
> at HW than most of the 7th years, and he hung out with a crowd of  
> kids who mostly became DE. In that particular scene, he was at a  
> definate disadvantage, but I don't think that it was always such.
>   I have a feeling that the parallels from the marauder's time is  
> more James-Draco, and Snape-Harry. I have a feeling that there will  
> be redemption for Draco as there was for James. Lily saw the best  
> in people, even James.
>

kchuplis:

I keep coming back to this too. How much of this is because it is how  
SNAPE saw it. In the other pensieve memories we have seen, the  
subjects have not had necessarily any kind of bias or at least not  
anything like what we know of Snape. We have no idea how much bias  
colors a pensieve memory.  And seeing anything in isolation can be  
deceiving. I really can't see everyone calling James a great guy (and  
everyone HAS except Snape) if he was really as big of a git all the  
time as the pensieve scene showed. If one were to describe many of  
Harry's adventures, he would or could sound like an arrogant show off  
and yet we know that is never in his intentions. Perspective  
perspective perspective.