Snape's grudge

[zora_djevojka at yahoo.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 15185


I asked:

>  why didn't teenage Snape push to get Sirius expelled. He could have, he 
> certainly
>  believed that Sirius attempted to kill him through that "prank".

and Amanda answered:

>How do we know that he didn't? Sirius himself makes the comment
>someplace that Snape was always following them around, trying to get
>them expelled. I'm betting that Snape *did* try to get Sirius expelled,
>on this and probably other occasions, but that Sirius had managed to let
>the info about the tunnel "slip" or be overheard or something other
>than, "Hey, Sev, ol' buddy ol' pal, here's where we go." Only the latter
>would indicate intent, and only clear intent would be enough to expel (I
>think).

That is likely, and in that case Snape would have only himself to blame. 
Not the mention that the realization he was tricked so masterfully would 
add to his later hatred of Sirius.



>Kind of adds a dimension to Snape's "whoops" slip of the tongue about
>Lupin being a werewolf. Doing the same to Lupin as Lupin's friend did to
>him. ["Oh, terribly sorry, did I *say* that? My mistake...." but damage
>done.]

But why didn't he make that slip _then_ instead in PoA. Remus says that 
Snape glimpsed him at the end of the tunnel [iirc], and if parents are not 
too pleased to have a werewolf teaching their children [even with the help 
of the Wolfsbane potion], they would have been horrified that there is a 
teenage werewolf running around the campus.

Vlatka
  


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