[HPforGrownups] Re: Why Did Sirius Play the Joke on Snape?

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 24865

cynthiaanncoe at home.com wrote:

> Amanda, I think your explanation is the only thing that makes sense.

Wow, got another one fooled.

> But I'm still troubled by this.  I think it would work better if
> Sirius had done something careless (rather than deliberate) that
> tipped Snape about Lupin and set up the situation where Snape follows
> Lupin into the Shrieking Shack.  That would explain better why Lupin
> would forgive Lupin.  And most importantly, it wouldn't give me such
> a powerful reason to dislike Sirius when I desperately want to like
> everything about him.  Then the blame for the whole incident would be
> more on Snape (where it should be) than on Sirius (where most of it is
> now).

Sounds like you've more than one foot in the Sirius camp already. No
matter what Snape might have done, including publishing wizard pictures
of Sirius in the shower and running his underwear up the flagpole,
*nothing* excuses a joke that has an excellent chance of ending in
death. So where do you get your "where it should be" feeling? "Snape
brought it on himself" is as undefendable a statement as "hey, well,
Sirius was only sixteen."

Nobody's saying Snape wasn't a poisonous little turd. But the extremity
of Sirius' "joke" take it out of the realm of payback and into the area
of assault.

--Amanda


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