Secrets (Long) OLD POST REPOST

[montavilla47]

No: HPFGUIDX 186456

> > Montavilla47:
> > Well, the best misdirection is going to be truthful, rather
> > than an out and out lie.  But it's a matter of degree.  I just
> > don't think it's that big a thing.  Snape's dealing with a lot
> > of stuff--and if he had to rank the things upsetting him
> > at that moment, James's use of Levicorpus twenty years
> > earlier would probably rank far behind:
> > 
> > 1. Having to kill Dumbledore
> > 2. Having to become a fugitive
> > 3. Having to get that idiot Malfoy to a safe place
> > 4. Having to keep the DEs from killing anyone
> > 5. Having to keep the DEs from killing that idiot Potter
> > 6. Wondering if Hagrid knows how to put out a fire
> > 7. Trying to avoid the hippogriff poo littering the grass
> > 8. Oh, yeah.  That idiot Potter is flinging spells at him.
> 
> Alla:
> 
> See I cannot agree with this at all. It is just not what he is saying to me in that quote. I do not see how you get this gradation, I mean I will grant that killing Dumbledore is high on his list, but the fact that you (generic you) would put these as your priorities, does not mean to me that Snape will be upset in this order. So I will put the idiot Potter firing spells at him and that bringing a flashback of his filfy father somewhere on 2 or 3. I could be wrong of course but Snape gave me no reason to think otherwise.
> 

Montavilla47:
I put them down in the order they came into my head.  It's
not intended to reflect their order of importance to Snape
at the moment. 

:)


> > Montavilla47:
> <SNIP>
> > Aberforth, according to someone, refused to speak
> > to Albus for a long time after Ariana's death--although
> > they eventually reconciled.  He also spoke badly
> > about Albus when he told the story to Harry.  Was
> > he holding a grudge?  If so, I think Aberforth would 
> > be the record-holding grudge-keeper among the 
> > living.
> 
> Alla:
> 
> But I mean, there was a death involved and if it was a grudge feels to me as more justifiable one. But yeah, you are right.


Montavilla47:

Well, there was a death involved with Snape, too--at least
until Snape understood that Sirius hadn't betrayed Lily.  And,
if Snape was holding a grudge against James, I would guess
that James being stupid enough to refuse Dumbledore's offer
of secret keeping was a large part of it.  (Isn't that what he
tells Harry in PoA?  Accusing him of being too proud to 
accept help or something like that?  I seem to remember
there being something he mentions about James that relates
to the secret-keeper debacle.)

And, of course, there was another death.  Snape's.