Yes that's absolutely right!

That's the funny thing about the mind, with amnesia or without it, sometimes the mind tends to block out horrible  things that happen to you. 

I am sort of following canon in my portrayal of Dumbledore--he is a manipulator, but with good intentions, and he also has several blind spots concerning the Marauders.  He never really curbed their pranks, at least to my understanding, perhaps because he thought they were harmless, but also because he was a prankster himself in his youth.  Sirius was the mastermind behind that so-called prank, but I think James probably went along with it, as a kind of let's scare Snape witless thing, until he realized it would mean Snape's death and then he acted to save him.  Funny how Peter was never mentioned, maybe he was hiding somewhere nearby in rat shape? In any case, I don;t think those two were punished beyond a few detentions and a lecture, since Severus never felt vindicated. In canon, he says "your father and his friends played a highly amusing joke on me and nearly got me killed" if he's still angry and bitter about it all those years later, that suggests to me that they were never punished for it.  Of course, Dumbledore couldn't expel them, but whatever he did do to them didn't leave much of an impression, because Sirius doesn;t seem to feel any kind of regret or remorse over almost killing Snape. He kind of seems to think that Snape deserved it, at least that is my interpretation of events.  DD threatens to expel Severus because it is the only way he can assure himself that Sev keeps his mouth shut, without binding him magically.  It was  a bluff, he never would have followed through, but Severus didn't know that.  ironically, in attempting to save Remus, Albus causes the potential suicide Severus to think that no one cares and leads him inadvertantly to nearly take his own life.  Of course DD never knows that, otherwise he would feel terrible and try to make amends.  But Severus never told him, and only Hagrid knows the truth.

It just makes sense for me to make Severus a healer and a Potions Master. In my other series, Never Again, Severus is a Master Healer, a doctor and Potions Master.  It's a very AU universe where Voldemort is killed suring the first war by James, Sirius, and Remus, though james dies trying to kill him.  Severus is also friends with Remus, Sirius, and James, they were never enemies.  Lily eventually marries Sev and he adopts Harry.  This series focus mainly on family relationships, raising a mischievius magical toddler, and Snape's reconciliation with his abusive former alcoholic father Tobias.

Eventually Freedom will regain his memories. 

No, i don't mind long reviews.  I just write long replys. LOL!

I know I'm so mean to poor Sevvy.  And mean to you too, with my darn cliffies, LOL!

Both familiar and mnetor will work together to save Sev, don't worry.