Dirty!Harry and Stoned!Harry

[dicentra63]

No: HPFGUIDX 43382


Dicentra wrote:
 
Oh, and BTW, for those of you fretting about how Sirius let Snape's
head scrape on the tunnel's roof, I noticed this: "[Snape] clicked his
fingers, and the ends of the cords that bound Lupin flew to his hands.
'I'll drag the werewolf. Perhaps the dementors will have a kiss for
him too --'"

In my book, dragging a conscious man's body across bare, stony ground
is much worse than a few scrapes on the head of an unconscious man.

Irene answered:
  
Isn't it very telling that Snape is always judged by what he threatens
to do, or what the other characters suspect he would want to do:
killing Trevor, feeding poison to Harry, failing Gryffindors in
Potions, feeding innocent people to Dementors etc. ?

So, to answer your question - no, threatening to do something can't be
worse than doing something else.

Dicentra retorts:

He didn't threaten to drag Lupin back to the castle, he announced it.
And he would have gotten away with it, too, if it hadn't been for
those meddling kids and their collective *Expelliarmus*.

And for what it's worth, part of the head-scraping happened while
Sirius was talking to Harry, right after Harry said he most definitely
*would* like to move in with him.  Siri was so happy he didn't notice
what he was doing.  (Not that he cared, mind. :D)

--Dicentra