The Potions Book WAS Re: Stupid question about Horscrux!Harry

[bluesqueak]

> Lyn:
> I remain, on this issue as well as others, very cautious about 
> drawing conclusions from that tiny fragment of history presented 
> to us. There are so many reasons to find Snape acting  
> deceptively there, just as he has elsewhere. He may have been 
wanting to keep 
> Lilly out of the battle, perhaps even wanting to make sure their 
> association would not be recognized. Not saying this is the case, 
> but I think the "memory" gives us too little information to       
> infer much of what when on before and after with respect to Lilly. 
> For as you aways end----
> 
> > Pip!Squeak
> > "Where do you think I would have been all these years, if I had 
> > not known how to act?" - Severus Snape

Pip!Squeak:

Heh. TeenageOscarWinner!Snape, hey? No wonder Fudge was paranoid in 
OOP; Hogwarts was training SpyKids even unto the previous 
generation. Makes the old-style KGB boarding schools look positively 
unambitious. {g}

But the point I was trying to make is not that Snape might have been 
a child-actor. The point is *Lily*. Lily, who found herself being 
called the Wizarding World's equivalent to the 'N' word. 'Mudblood', 
we are constantly being reminded, is a deeply offensive term. 

Not only does Snape have to be playing a part, Lily has to be 
playing one too. Because Lily would have to recognise that Snape's 
use of a nasty slur on her background wasn't genuine. And still act 
as if she'd just been insulted. And also, she'd have to have some 
reason to be in cahoots with Snape. SpyKids, indeed. 

I think the idea of 'Hogwarts School of Witchcraft,Wizardry and the 
Dramatic Arts' is fun, but the big question an actor has to ask 
is 'what's my motivation?' 

[In my case, this translates as 'Are you paying me for this gig?' 
{g}]

If Lily partnered Snape up to OWLS, then heard him call her 
a 'mudblood' - what's *her* motivation for sticking with him after 
that?

Pip!Squeak
"Where do you think I would have been all these years, if I had not 
known how to act?" - Severus Snape