Sirius and Snape/ US/English versions

[marinafrants]

No: HPFGUIDX 34459

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Edblanning at a... wrote:

> By the way, I feel that the Snape/ Sirius discussions of late have
got a bit 
> stuck on the schoolboy prank subject ( looking sheepish, as I think
it was a 
> throw-away remark of mine that brought it up again). If Snape was
(as is 
> often supposed) the one who warned Lily and James about Voldemort,
he has 
> also had thirteen years to store up resentment against the man that
he thinks 
> foiled his attempt to save them. He *does* think Sirius was the
mole. He 
> *does* want revenge for the murder he tried to prevent. The fact
that he's 
> also one of his worst childhood enemies is the icing on the cake.
The fact 
> that it was another of his worst childhood enemies that he was
trying to save 
> probably only makes it worse.

I also think that Sirius' prank and subsequent "betrayal" are closely
connected in Snape's mind.  He has always maintained that the prank
was a deliberate murder attempt, but nobody else saw it that way. 
When Sirius turned out to be the traitor, I think Snape saw it as a
validation -- "see, he really is a killer, I've said so all along." 
Absolving Sirius of one crime would mean absolving him of the other,
too, or at least admitting the possibility of it.  I'm not sure that
Snape is capable, after fifteen years of carrying a grudge, to turn
around and say "Oops, I guess I was wrong after all."

Marina
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