CHAPDISC: DH33, The Prince's Tale

[Zara]

No: HPFGUIDX 184832

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at ...> wrote:
>
> Joey:
> I still don't understand why *Snape* chose that memory to come on
> top of his mind. He could have easily gone for simple,
> good-for-nothing memories thus maintaining his data privacy.
> 
> Pippin:
> It was a double bluff, IMO. Snape didn't want Harry or Voldemort to
> know how good at maintaining data privacy Snape actually was. The
> memories Snape was eliciting from Harry were not simple,
> good-for-nothing ones, so it would have been suspicious if the
> deflected spell  pulled fluffy-bunny memories from Snape. 

Zara:
I don't understand why we would think that memory was deliberately 
chosen at all. It seemed to me that the breakthrough was accidental, 
and Snape regained control pretty quickly, but had no control over 
which memories Harry saw. This was my interpretation when I read OotP, 
and I don't see that we have learned anything new that would change my 
view, in the two final books of the series. Am I missing something?