Snape's other two memories he didn't want Harry to see

[Evil Wizard Petting Zoo]

Well, Dumbledore didn't have much choice about who was going to teach Harry. Dumbledore couldn't because of LV "flickering" behind Harry's eyes. And if DD and Harry spent that much time together Harry acting like LV's snake, mighta taken a chunk outta DD. So that left Snape b/c he's the only other Occlumens around. I think Snape shoulda been more open-minded and less emotional about what happened 20 years ago with James.

[Athena Appleton]

yeah, like i said, I think the only person who's to blame for Harry's not learning Occlumency is Harry.

[Evil Wizard Petting Zoo]

Geez, this makes me wonder how much worse Harry and Snape's relationship is going to be next book. That gets me to thinking that maybe why Snape joined the DE's was just to be against James, not to do evil and LV's bidding, just so he can get back at James with some evil LV backing him up. Then Snape switched sides because he realized he was being evil for the wrong reasons. So he did the right thing even though it meant being on the same side as James. Perhaps that was enough for Dumbledore. Bah, it's late I'm just rambling on...

[Athena Appleton]

that's a good thought... but didn't Sirius say that Snape was really into dark arts even before he was at Hogwarts?

[Ferrus]

Sirius did say something about that in PoA or GoF, I think that Snape, like Sirius, came from a really hard-core pure-blood wizard family that where (on top of everything) also dark wizards.

[Evil Wizard Petting Zoo]

yeah, Sirius said Snape knew more curses than most 7th years when he was in 1st. I want to know alot more about his past, parents, etc.

[AngelicS_89]

yeah, Sirius said Snape knew more curses than most 7th years when he was in 1st. I want to know alot more about his past, parents, etc.

Yeah,I would like to find out something more about them too....
I think that Snape wanted to hide there all the informations he knew for Order,and some bad memories that he wouldn't like Harry to find,cause Harry could find out things that he shouldn't know if he would defence and strike back at Snape...You know that DD didn't want Harry to know everything what was happening in the Order..

[Evil Wizard Petting Zoo]

Yeah, not to mention if ol' Voldy is looking in on things through Harry's eyes. That wouldn't be too good for the Order.

[Athena Appleton]

yeah, I mean, it's not exactly a shock that there are thoughts/memories/fears that Snape would keep from Harry, for good reason.

I just had a thought about the Occlumency lessons... what if they weren't really set up to be just lessons? What if Dumbledore was kind of hoping that, while Harry was learning Occlumency and Snape was invading his mind, Snape would learn additional information about Voldemort?

[Mistress Siana]

I think the fact that Snape had to teach Harry occlumency definitely means something. At least, it makes it rather unlikely that Snape is still working as a spy. I mean, just think about how dangerous it would have been for him if Voldemort gained access to his mind via Harry's eyes!

I definitely want to know more about his background. It has never been mentioned that he's a pure-blood, but I think that's what is most likely. But wasn't he constantly wearing shabby clothes? I think that wouldn't have been the case if he's from a wealthy family. Don't ask me why, but I've always imagined the Snapes as a kinda fallen dynasty...or something like that.

[Evil Wizard Petting Zoo]

I definitely want to know more about his background. It has never been mentioned that he's a pure-blood, but I think that's what is most likely. But wasn't he constantly wearing shabby clothes? I think that wouldn't have been the case if he's from a wealthy family. Don't ask me why, but I've always imagined the Snapes as a kinda fallen dynasty...or something like that.

Yeah, I think Snape's pureblood and I bet he comes from this evil Black-like family. I mean, what mother would name her baby "Severus?" Anyone with that kinda name is gonna have problems.

Also, in Snape's memory,how come we didn't see Snape with any of his evil Slytherin buds? Sirius says he has some Slyth friends in OoTP. I wonder where they were.

[Evil Wizard Petting Zoo]

I definitely want to know more about his background. It has never been mentioned that he's a pure-blood, but I think that's what is most likely. But wasn't he constantly wearing shabby clothes? I think that wouldn't have been the case if he's from a wealthy family. Don't ask me why, but I've always imagined the Snapes as a kinda fallen dynasty...or something like that.

Yeah, I think Snape's pureblood and I bet he comes from this evil Black-like family. I mean, what mother would name her baby "Severus?" Anyone with that kinda name is gonna have problems.

Also, in Snape's memory,how come we didn't see Snape with any of his evil Slytherin buds? Sirius says he has some Slyth friends in OoTP. I wonder where they were.

[hbic3]

I'm reading the first book again, and have just passed the part where Hagrid explains to Harry that some wizards crossed to Voldemort because they wanted a bit of his power.

Since, in his memory, Snape was powerless against James Potter, that, I took to be the reason why Snape crossed. Not because he came from a evil dark family. He just wanted to get even with James, and needed more power.

[Emma'I'm a real witch']

Its possible that Snape became a death eater to try and gain the power to defeat James, but I think it is more probable that it was to do with his facination with the dark arts that he got all mixed up with Voldy.
Maybe he knew someone who (Lucius Malfoy??) was already involved and got introduced that way.

As in he didn't directly seek out LV to get one up on James.

[Evil Wizard Petting Zoo]

Yeah, because Snape was already into the Dark Arts. He probably was scouted to become a DE.

Whoops, sorry for that double-post back there.