[HPforGrownups] Re: Snape's memory

[Jeremiah LaFleur]

No: HPFGUIDX 164531

> montims:
> OK - maybe I need to take the books out *again*! I was under the
> impression that while the memories are Snape's, the characters in the
> memories were NOT identified - where does Harry actually acknowledge
> that any of the persons were (or were not) Snape? I may be wrong, but
> I thought that was misdirection - the reader assumes they are Snape,
> advancing in order of age, but it is not specified, and I don't think
> we know who Harry recognised...
>
> If I am wrong, I apologise for labouring this point, but I do think it
> is important - the memories flash by really quickly, and are then
> driven out of his mind - is the way I remember it...

va32h:

No, I don't think it is categorically stated that the child, boy, and
teen in the memories are Snape, but I certainly think that is the
impression we are supposed to have, and that Harry has.

What would be Jo's motivation behind the misdirection? I guess that's
my sticking point. I don't understand why Snape would need to have a
wife and child introduced at this part of the story. So much has been
made about his remorse having to do with the Potters that throwing in
this wife/child business in book 7 just seems...unnecessary. We still
don't have an adequate explanation of where the Potters fit into
Snape's remorse without adding another motivation, is what I'm saying.

I love, love, love, Carol's idea that the man is Snape's grandfather,
not father. Her entire scenario with Snape's Muggle father abandoning
them, a grandfather disliking Half-bloods, is not only plausible but
brings a lot to my understanding of Snape. And the importance of good
fathering seems to be a recurring theme in the series.

I'm just not convinced that we need Snape to be a father, good or bad.

va32h

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Jeremiah:

I dont' understand something...
Why would Snape have someone else's memories in his head? If the child is
not Snape then who is it? Would this not be as complicated a point as Snape
sudeenly having a wife and kids? (which i truely doubt is the case... the
wife and kid(s) that is...). And for the scene to be Snapes grandfather is
only the same idea that it would be meaningless to go along with the theory
that Snape is really MarriedManWithKids!Snape. So how would
StuckWithTheCursesFromHisGrandfather!Snape be any more of a solution?


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