[HPforGrownups] Re: McGonagall and Sirius / Snape's Task

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 23650

Zarleycat at aol.com wrote:

> Asking Sirius to transform back to his human form in
> front of Snape sends a message to both of them.  It says to
> Sirius, "I trust Snape enough to reveal your secret Animagus identity
> to him - you can trust him, too."  And it says to Snape, "I've given
> the vital secret of Sirius' disguise and I trust you will not use it
> against him or reveal this to the wrong people."

Bravo! And thank you! I've been sitting here with something along these
lines pong-ing around in my head, unable to phrase it. Perfect. Exactly.
Yes.

> Although, I'd love to see a scene with Severus and Sirius acting in
> concert to do something great together, sniping at each other the
> entire time.

This is also one of my fondest hopes. Because Snape's style has always
reminded me of a description of Edmund from "Prince Caspian" in the
Narnia series, something along the lines of "He fully intended to back
Lucy up, but was annoyed at losing his night's sleep and was making up
for it by doing everything as sulkily as possible." Snape, I believe, is
fully committed to the good side, but for many-layered reasons, does
everything as sulkily as possible. Because of his conscious commitment
to the good, I don't class him as an anti-hero like Thomas Covenant in
the Unbeliever series (forgot the author, sorry)--Covenant really *was*
an S.O.B. who did good things in spite of himself, often in spite of his
own intentions and actions. Snape's intent and actions are good--but his
style is so mean! I really hope we see more of his underlying
motivations in subsequent books, and I think a sequence working closely
with Sirius would be priceless.

--Amanda (my version of a one-liner)


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