[HPforGrownups] Re: Marauder's Map problem

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 17245

Morag Traynor wrote:

> Perhaps he could put two and two together?  He says "One glance at
> [the map] told me all I needed to know" - is this typical JKR
> evasiveness?  He'd have gone after H H & R anyway, as this would be a
> golden chance to get them all
> expelled for breaking bounds.

But in the Shack, Snape is speaking to Lupin, and says he sees *Lupin*
running down the tunnel. By the time Lupin was doing that, HHR were
already in the Shack and thus not visible on the map (because the Shack
is off the Hogwarts grounds). So I think Snape didn't even realize that
HHR were involved at all, necessarily, until he found the cloak at the
foot of the tree.

Snape went to Lupin's office to take him his potion. But I think he
followed him because he genuinely believed that Lupin was in league with
Sirius and a danger to Harry, and here's Lupin acting suspiciously--a
chance to show Dumbledore I was right! thinks Snape. Once he got there,
he was acting to protect the troika, too, but I think his primary
motivation was to catch Lupin in the act, maybe catch Sirius, validate
his viewpoint to Dumbledore, and finally see some gratitude in that
upstart's son's eyes for catching the man who caused his parent's
deaths.

Thoughts? This whole sequence needs even more parsing to make sure who
knew what at what time. It's so easy to forget that such and such didn't
know something until after this happened. This sequence must have taken
simply *ages* to write and rework until each thing happened just right.

--Amanda


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