Snape killing flies WAS: Re: Lily WAS: First lesson

[zanooda2]

No: HPFGUIDX 185748

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "lizzyben04" <lizzyben04 at ...> wrote:

> And it's quite reminiscent of another memory in which Snape 
> was in a humiliating, awkward situation that Lily found amusing:

> "A second flash of light later, Snape was hanging upside down 
> in the air, his robes falling over his head to reveal skinny, 
> pallid legs and a pair of graying underpants.
> Lily, whose furious expression had twitched for an instant as 
> though she was going to smile..."


zanooda:

I'm not sure that the situations are comparable :-). I can easily
imagine myself laughing in the bucking broom case, but in SWM - not so
much. Maybe gray underwear can be funny, I don't know, but even if it
can, I would have been so mad at the jerks humiliating my friend, that
I wouldn't be able to laugh anyway (that's why I think that Sev and
Lily were not really best friends at the time of SWM, not anymore). 

As for the bucking broom - the whole situation is just funny, that's
all. It's something for "WW's Funniest Home Videos" :-). Snape is just
not someone who can laugh at himself, otherwise he would have laughed
together with the girl (Lily or not). Actually, I don't remember Snape
ever laughing :-).


> lizzyben04 wrote:

> If that bucking broomstick memory is any guide, Snape finds it 
> really, really humiliating to look foolish in front of Lily. So 
> that moment - pf being bullied, humiliated & stripped in front of 
> her - probably *would* be Snape's Worst Memory.


zanooda:

Yeah, I know many people think it's the worst memory because what
happened that day led to Severus and Lily's break-up, but IMO even
without the break-up it would have been really dreadful.