[HPforGrownups] Pettigrew vs. Sirius

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No: HPFGUIDX 11190

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Monika Zaboklicka" 
<monika.zaboklicka at c...> wrote:
> 
Re:  Pettigrew vs. Sirius....
I would guess that another factor would be that Sirius just wasn't 
expecting Pettigrew to fire *behind* him. I mean, that's not the 
usual situation in a duel. 

> 
> >
> >>I think that seemingly intelligent boy of sixteen should do
> >>some thinking before sending a colleague to death or fate not 
much better
> >>than it.
> >
> >Well, teenage boys aren't very sensitive most of the time, they are
> >some sort of "hormone bombs" (sorry to all you guys, I know there 
are
> >exceptions to this rule :-)) ready to go off at any time. I think 
you
> >see this from your adult and female POV.
> 
> This is not only "adult female" POV, it's also a "Fanatic Snape-
fan" POV...
> Anyway, I'm afraid that if they were Muggles, and a "joke" like 
that ended
> up with another lad's death, the police and a judge for juveniles 
wouldn't
> treat it merely as a result of "hormone bombs". But perhaps my 
support for
> Snape alters my POV too much...
> But why, after 20 years (including 12 years in Azkaban) Sirius 
still says
> that
> "it served him right"?
>


Perhaps he felt even more resentful towards Snape after the 
denouement of PoA (also known as the scene where JKR made *very* 
frequent use of the caps lock key). 

BTW, speaking of the events of fifteen or sixteen years past, what 
did Pettigrew and Snape think of each other at school? Did they a)
sort of ignore/indifferent to each other or b) did Snape pick on 
Pettigrew much like Draco does Neville? If it's b, well, considering 
the theme of conflict of the past revisted in the present, or petty 
schooltime rivalries transfigured into life and death situations, 
Sirius's grudge against him could be the least of Snape's worries. 

Charmian....pointless speculation galore!