Secrets (Long) OLD POST REPOST

[Zara]

No: HPFGUIDX 186468

> Montavilla47:
> Well, there was a death involved with Snape, too--at least
> until Snape understood that Sirius hadn't betrayed Lily.  

Zara:
I so agree! It's not so much that there was no grudge, as that there were very serious reasons to feel one. What makes it stand out from any other grudge in the series is neither its intensity or cause, I feel, but the fact that it alone is painted as being over a trivial matter of schoolday rivalry.

> montavilla47:
> 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.)

> PoA (speaker is Snape):
> "Like father, like son, Potter! I have just saved your neck; you should be thanking me on bended knee! You would have been well served if he'd killed you! You'd have died like your father, too arrogant to believe you might be mistaken in Black -- now get out of the way, or I will make you. GET OUT OF THE WAY, POTTER!"