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

[sistermagpie]

> > 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>

Magpie:
Sorry, I worded that badly. I didn't mean he had respect for Sirius 
the man, just that he had to respect that he was Lily's friend and 
not the guy who got her killed. 

-m