Snape's memory

[Sherry]

No: HPFGUIDX 151899

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Goddlefrood" <gav_fiji at ...> wrote:
>
> <SNIP> WC (Is this right?) wrote:
> > It seems to me that one's memory of what happened when one is being 
> bullied would become embellished over the years.
> >    
> >   Am i wrong? 
> 
> Goddlefrood says:
> 
> This is self-explanatory and shows that Snape could not have 
> embellished the memory, but that it was exactly how it happened - the 
> greasy little ...
> 
> A Bientot
>

Amontillada adds:

Goddlefrood is right. I want to point out one more thing about the
memory and James: this was only ONE incident in James' life, one trick
he pulled. It isn't the sum total of what James was like. 

I don't see this memory as JKR revealing that James was nothing better
than a nasty prankster. That was Harry's initial reaction, but Harry
is a teenaged orphan whose only previous image of his father had been
completely heroic. I take it as what Sirius and Lupin tried to explain
to Harry: evidence that James was a great deal more complicated than
the "good guy/bad guy" division in his boyish view.

Amontillada