CHAPDISC: DH33, The Prince's Tale

[zanooda2]

No: HPFGUIDX 184835

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Zara" <zgirnius at ...> wrote:

> 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?


zanooda:

That's what I've always believed too, and it has never even crossed 
my mind that what happened after Harry's "protego" could be 
deliberate. Harry felt sure that he accidentally had broken into 
Snape's childhood memories, and Snape's reaction (shaking and white 
in the face) shows that Harry was right. I think those memories 
were "on the surface" of Snape's mind because watching endlessly 
Harry's humiliating childhood memoried brought out his own bitter 
childhood memories ;-(.