Snape, Sirius and The Prank...

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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Lynx412 at a... wrote:
>        I agree that we don't know all there is to know about The 
Prank. A lot 
> of what's been said doesn't add up. I like Ellen's suggestion that 
Peter may 
> have been behind it. My biggest question, though, is why was Snape 
harassing 
> and following them? The implication, that the relationships 
resemble that of 
> the current trio, is Snape = Malfoy. But still doesn't explain why, 
aside 
> from House hostility.

Well...Snape has a few problems, but humility really isn't one of 
them.  Yet at the same time, he also seems to have this need to 
assert and/or prove his perceived superiority over others (something 
which to me indicates a sort of insecurity, but that's neither here 
nor there).  If he was the same way as a teenager, then trying to get 
MWPP expelled was probably his attempt to prove that he was better 
than the ever-so-popular James Potter.

> James, at least, should have had some relative 
> freedom to wander. We're told he was Head Boy in his final year, 
which 
> implies that he was also a Prefect earlier. I suspect that perhaps 
Sirius 
> was, too. 

But (as I'm sure Percy would only too gladly confirm) as a prefect 
and Head Boy, he also had an example to set for the rest of the 
student body.  Going out after hours (not to mention circumventing 
wizard law, etc.) wouldn't exactly reflect well on him.

Sirius a prefect?  I don't know, I get the impression that Sirius as 
a boy wasn't interested in having that sort of 
authority/responsibility...kind of like Fred and George.

>        Cheryl, who thinks *both* sides in that quarrel need to 
apologize...
> 

Agreed.  If either party is proven to be entirely innocent in these 
proceedings, I will be very surprised (and very dissappointed).

~Christi