[HPforGrownups] James, Sirius, Lupin, Snape

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No: HPFGUIDX 48205

Maria wrote:

>Your arguments make sense, all except one. How could Snape think that Lupin >
planned the Prank along with S and J? I mean, that automatically means that 
Lupin >planned to become a murderer! Even Snape, who hates James' guts along 
with all >James' friends, couldn't think that Lupin would plan to eat 
somebody. No, I just >don't understand it. ::stares, puzzled, at the computer 
screen::

Now me:

Well, whether it "makes sense" or not, this is the one bit of my argument 
which is really easy to defend <g> - It's very clear in canon:

***
Chapter 18, PoA

"So that's why Snape doesn't like you," said Harry slowly, "because he 
thought you were in on the joke?"
       "That's right," sneered a cold voice from the wall behind Lupin.
       Severus Snape was pulling off the Invisibility Cloak, his wand 
pointing directly at Lupin.
***

Snape himself *says* that this is why he doesn't like Lupin. And, after all, 
Lupin is a *werewolf*. From what we've seen in canon, most people think they 
are dangerous and evil. Even when not "transformed." Ron had a violent 
negative reaction to Lupin earlier in the same chapter quoted above. ("Get 
away from me werewolf"). *We* know (or most of us believe, anyway) that Lupin 
is a sweet and gentle soul who is not dangerous or evil, and who would never 
deliberately harm someone. But this does not seem to be the majority opinion 
in the WW - quite the opposite, after all. And, although we are led to 
believe that James and Co. are the "good guys", so it doesn't make sense that 
Lupin would willingly become a murderer, I think that murdering is just one 
of the things which is commonly expected of werewolves, in the WW public 
view, anyway. 

Also, at this point Snape believes Sirius to be a psychotic, evil mass 
murderer who has spent the past several months trying to kill Harry AND he 
belives that Lupin has been helping him get into the castle,. (Chapter 9, PoA 
- Snape: "It seems - almost impossible - that Black could have entered the 
school without inside help. I did express my concerns when you appointed -" . 
. . it's my belief that Snape is referring to Lupin here). 

So it is clear that Snape did believe Lupin was in on the prank, and thinks 
that he is now trying to harm Harry. 

And, for the record, I didn't say that Sirius and James planned the prank. I 
think it was purely Sirius - probably something done on a whim (not 
premeditated. I hope not, anyway. That would *really* be something for the 
Sirius apologists to explain away <GGG>). It has always seemed to me that 
James found out just in the nick of time to rush in and save Severus' life. 

:-)
Wendy


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