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(Sorry, first posted this reply on LJ instead of IJ)
>>>In fact, if general impressions of Lily became a little blurred in the course of obscuring the spy’s true feelings for her, that would help explain why Minerva never mentioned his mother to Harry. <<<
In fact, NOBODY at Hogwarts EVER talks about Lily again. Harry gets to hear from several sources how wonderful his dear daddy was, and we see Minerva reminiscense about the Marauders quite fondly, if somewhat fuzzily (more about that later), but the ONLY one who talks about Lily is Slughorn - who disappeared from under Dumblebore's sphere of influence by the time she died.
When we, by way of Harry, overhear Miverva talk about the Marauders she recants there shenenigans (to put it mildly - they must've been true horrors) in a faintly endeared way, which just sounds wrong to me. If she was truly the 'stern but fair' schoolmarm she was supposed to be - although, truth to tell, I find that rather hard to swallow since the biggist bullies of the school (Marauders, Twins) thrive under her watch - the Marauders strapazes should've been a thorn in her side. We all assumed that she were fuzzing the past under the motto 'speak no ill of the dead', but it would suit Dumblebore fine if nobody could remember quite clearly what the new Dead Hero, the Father of The Boy Who Lived For Whom Statues Were Erected, true character was like.
So I put it to you that Dumbles not only confunded staff members - Minerva first and foremost - about Lily and Severus, but also about James. James, the aristocratic layabout, the rich jock who hexed children for fun, who routinely did a spot of 'Severus-hunting', was too stained to become a marble-white Hero to inspire the masses. So he was white-washed by Dumbledore's brush, and it wouldn't need much. Who were to say that James was really a bore and a bully-boy? His victims? Yeah, sure. And be booed down.
Oh, that must've BURNED Severus. The injustice of it. To see a worthless git become leonized and not even being able to say anything lest the confounded idiots tell him to 'get over a childhood grudge' and not able to enlighten them because that would mess with Dumbles' Big Plan. The only sources that still spoke the truth were Filch's punishment register. But those were gathering dust while spinmaster Dumbledore's 'heroes' got a marble statue. Fame! Flim-flam! Fool's gold.
>>>In fact, if general impressions of Lily became a little blurred in the course of obscuring the spy’s true feelings for her, that would help explain why Minerva never mentioned his mother to Harry. <<<
In fact, NOBODY at Hogwarts EVER talks about Lily again. Harry gets to hear from several sources how wonderful his dear daddy was, and we see Minerva reminiscense about the Marauders quite fondly, if somewhat fuzzily (more about that later), but the ONLY one who talks about Lily is Slughorn - who disappeared from under Dumblebore's sphere of influence by the time she died.
When we, by way of Harry, overhear Miverva talk about the Marauders she recants there shenenigans (to put it mildly - they must've been true horrors) in a faintly endeared way, which just sounds wrong to me. If she was truly the 'stern but fair' schoolmarm she was supposed to be - although, truth to tell, I find that rather hard to swallow since the biggist bullies of the school (Marauders, Twins) thrive under her watch - the Marauders strapazes should've been a thorn in her side. We all assumed that she were fuzzing the past under the motto 'speak no ill of the dead', but it would suit Dumblebore fine if nobody could remember quite clearly what the new Dead Hero, the Father of The Boy Who Lived For Whom Statues Were Erected, true character was like.
So I put it to you that Dumbles not only confunded staff members - Minerva first and foremost - about Lily and Severus, but also about James. James, the aristocratic layabout, the rich jock who hexed children for fun, who routinely did a spot of 'Severus-hunting', was too stained to become a marble-white Hero to inspire the masses. So he was white-washed by Dumbledore's brush, and it wouldn't need much. Who were to say that James was really a bore and a bully-boy? His victims? Yeah, sure. And be booed down.
Oh, that must've BURNED Severus. The injustice of it. To see a worthless git become leonized and not even being able to say anything lest the confounded idiots tell him to 'get over a childhood grudge' and not able to enlighten them because that would mess with Dumbles' Big Plan. The only sources that still spoke the truth were Filch's punishment register. But those were gathering dust while spinmaster Dumbledore's 'heroes' got a marble statue. Fame! Flim-flam! Fool's gold.