So Why didn't Dumbledore Punish Sirius?

[srsiriusblack at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 48529

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Angela Evans 
<sixhoursahead at y...> wrote:
> 
> I am a Sirius-supporter to the end.  I'm glad that he was not 
punished for the prank, but I do not understand WHY he got away with 
it?  Maybe he didn't.  


Me:
I just thought of this.... what if the actuality of what happened was 
not brought to Dumbledore's attention until *after* everyone had 
graduated. Dumbledore says that he knew James during his time at 
Hogwarts and after.. ( also I assume he knew all of the Marauders 
during these times)

Snape, I think, since uninjured by the prank, really, may have not 
gone straight to Dumbledore with the information... for a number of 
reasons..
A) Which is more powerful- To have something to hold over someone
(s)'s head 
or 
B) To quickly use what you know to get the person(s) in trouble...

I think Severus Snape was calculated with the information. He may 
have held it from Dumbledore in case he ever needed the upper hand in 
a situation.

and then there is another theory I have.

What if Snape was already among the followers of Voldemort. By all 
accounts Tom Riddle was in Hagrid's class which would have been many 
many years before Severus and the Marauders. Voldemort killed his 
father as a teenager ( First Chapter GoF), so who is to say that 
Severus or at least his family, wasn't already following Voldemort. That 
little fact establishes that wizards can be just awful at a very 
young age. But, if it were just his family at this point.....

There may have been some.... prejudices ...from the faculty and from 
the Marauders towards him--- or even if he openly stated agreement 
with the principles of the Dark Side. 

this would be much like how Draco Malfoy is looked upon by the 
faculty in the HP books. I.E. the majourity of the faculty would have 
sided with the Marauders and NOT Severus Snape.


Or, there is always the theory that Severus was a large nosed, 
greasy haired, slimeball of an ugly git ( who I personally think is 
pretty darn attractive ;) )as a child and no one liked him at all so 
know one listened.

Still "registering astonishment that an idiot like that ever became a 
professor",
Snuffles




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