Snape's minor memories (Was: Snape and Dumbledore on the Tower)

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 165389

 
> Carol responds:
> 
> This is just a small aside. I'm not sure that Teen!Snape is practicing
> killing flies in the sense of practicing killing people. 
<snip>
 My sense in
> that memory is that he's just bored, a teenage boy with nowhere to go
> and nothing to do.

Pippin:
That may have been how Snape felt at the time.

But Snape wasn't extracting random memories from Harry, he was
extracting memories that would make Harry feel  
humiliated, and that was the spell that Harry turned back on him
with protego. So regardless of how Snape felt when he was 
actually shooting down the flies, I don't think it's a memory 
he is comfortable with now.

Similarly, Harry certainly didn't feel humiliated when Cho kissed
him, but he's frantic not to be forced to share the
memory with Snape -- ewww.

We don't know what  spell  Snape was using in the memory and 
we don't know whether there was any light, red, green or polkadot, 
but why would Snape feel humiliated or ashamed to recall it if 
he was just using the WW equivalent of a flyswatter?

Pippin