CHAPDISC: DH33, The Prince's Tale

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>>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. 


Hmmm, interesting point indeed... but if Voldy can show Harry a false vision of Sirius being crucio-ed why can't Snape do something similar to both Voldy and Harry? He could have "shown" something seemingly true but actually false - he was always mentally prepared for performing occlumency, whether it was with Voldy or Harry. Yet he seems to have chosen to show the real one to Harry. 


I doubt that Harry *accidentally* saw the memory given that Snape was known to be an excellent occlumens. Even if we consider the possibility of Snape having remembered his horrible childhood memories after seeing those of Harry's, Snape was prepared for the lesson and the legilimency that Harry was about to perform on him. For a person who can look back calmly into Voldy's face while people around are unable to stand the ferocity of Voldy's gaze, this kind of slip with a boy totally new to legilimency/occlumency seems quite odd to me. May be one explanation is that this was just a weak moment for Snape. Another *remotely* possible reason could be that he did soften a bit and gave in to an impulse to indeed share a similar memory with Harry.

 
Let me know what you all think! :-)

~Joey 


      

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