did Snape ever Believe..............

[pippin_999]

> Magpie:
> I think it was probably only because he found out Sirius wasn't the 
> SK that Snape agreed to work with him at all--Snape probably went 
> from hating Sirius to the point of wanting him dead to just hating 
> him (the way he does in OotP where it's more about just their school 
> hatred, the Prank, James, fighting--he also must have hated that 
> Sirius wound up being friends with Lily, but at the same time he had 
> to respect him because he was Lily's friend).
> 

Pippin:
I dunno, I can't see Snape respecting Sirius because he was Lily's
friend any more than Sirius ever respected Snape for that reason. 
I think he felt to the end that Sirius, like the other Marauders, was
completely unworthy of her.

Any respect he had for Sirius was probably as a wizard powerful
enough to do the Animagus charm, cunninng enough to conceal it
from Dumbledore for all those years, and daring enough to escape
from Azkaban. All very Slytherin traits, of course.<g>

Pippin