Sirius, Snape & the Joke

[Kelly Hurt]

No: HPFGUIDX 25196

When discussing the 'joke', I think most people fail to take into
consideration Sirius' opinion of *Lupin*.

I think that Sirius never believed that Snape would be in physical
danger because, in the teenaged mind of Sirius Black, Lupin was 'under
control'.  We're explicitly told that under the influence of his
friends, Lupin's time as a werewolf was becoming less savage.

By the time the trick was played Sirius was probably so used to dealing
with Lupin's lycanthropy that he came to think of it as a sort of
wolf-animagus transformation and not as something highly dangerous. 
This happens every day:  people get accustomed to doing something
dangerous and fail to practice CONSTANT VIGILANCE resulting in
sometimes fatal tragedy.

So, when he told Severus how to get past the Whomping Willow, the young
Sirius figured Snape would be *scared* but not hurt.

Only my opinion, of course, but I think it fits all the facts.

Kelly the Yarn Junkie

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