A BIAS in the Pensieve: A Batty Idea About Snape

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Charme:
>>> Oh no. *Please* tell me you didn't just say you thought this was 
the old Vampire!Snape theory you're hit with *first thing* without 
reading the post ;) BTW, if you care to share, why would the 
Vampire!Snape theory (or any theory) drive you away from a group? <<<

Mel:
>> I read the post--the best I could without becoming dizzy. That's 
not a dig at the poster, I've seen formatting problems on lots of 
posts on lots of yahoo groups and there doesn't ever seem to be a 
specific reason for any of them.

Why would it drive me away? Because it's been Done To Death. As the
post just above posits, there is no reason for Snape to be anything
other than what he is now, a thoroughly unpleasant human who may or
may not be a "good guy". <<


SSSusan:
With a brief comment here.  I've never been a fan of vampire!Snape, 
and I confess to arriving at the point of Lyn's post which discussed 
the "It's more that he *exists*..." remark and thinking, "Oh, come 
on. It's just to be taken at face value."  BUT!  After I read on, I 
really appreciated her take on the possibility of a bat or vampire 
connection.  

Why?

Because one thing which has NEVER made sense to me is Snape's 
behavior post-prank.  

Here is this person, convinced these guys had tried to KILL him -- 
and who still, to this day, feels compelled to remind DD of the fact 
["Surely you recall what they tried to do to me, Headmaster" 
(paraphrased)], but yet he DID NOT SPILL THE BEANS AT THE TIME.  We 
know that DD forbade Snape's telling, but what in the world could DD 
have held over Snape to have prevented him from telling?  

Expulsion, you might argue, but even if that were taken as a 
possibility, then WHY would Snape not *despise* DD to this day for 
bribing him into silence, for risking the safety & well-being of all 
those Hogwarts students by making him stay silent?  Yet clearly he 
does not detest DD.  Rather, he clearly respects and trusts DD, 
follows his orders.  Why does he do this?  

Today we might say he follows orders because DD accepted him back, 
trusts him in return.  But if Snape was *that* livid about the 
Marauders' behavior towards him, including the prank and the 
humiliation scene we see in the pensieve memory, I find it very hard 
to believe that DD's instructing him to keep quiet about a 
*werewolf* at the school would have been effective at that time.  

UNLESS DD had something quite compelling to "remind" Snape of.  
Something perhaps like his own status as a feared & mistrusted being.

The one part of Lyn's post which I have trouble accepting fully is 
the following:
>>> I also believe that the Prank cemented a bond between Lupin and 
Snape, and led to a friendship of sorts. It was his friendship (or 
at least overtures of that sort) with Snape that caused Lupin to 
become the Marauder first suspected of being a spy. Again, not a 
whiff of canon to support this friendship (except, just maybe in its 
very absence), but there are two pieces of canon that do become 
interesting to consider in light of these speculations. One is how 
nonplussed Lupin is with Snape assigning that Werewolf essay, and how
Lupin then assigns a Vampire essay. It is almost like this is an 
inside joke between them.  Second, in OOTP when Sirius and Lupin 
learn of Snape discontinuing the Occulemency lessons, it is Lupin 
who states he should be the one to talk to Snape. Why Lupin? , 
because they were once friends.<<<

SSSusan:
The reason I question this is that it appears it was *Snape* who 
let "slip" the fact of Lupin's werewolf status after the Shrieking 
Shack scene in PoA.  Would he do that if they were still cordial & 
somewhat friendly?  Or would you postulate that, because Snape 
believed Lupin *helped* the murderous Black, Snape would've stopped 
feeling any sense of amity towards Lupin?

Siriusly Snapey Susan