[HPforGrownups] Re: Snapers vs. Sirists; Canon Snape

[IAmLordCassandra at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 34679

 cindysphynx writes:


> Oh, I just can't get on board here.  Snape goes to the Shack under an 
> invisibility cloak and armed with his wand.  When he arrives, he 
> finds three kids, an unarmed Sirius Black, and his professional 
> colleague Lupin.  He doesn't take the cloak off until he is good and 
> ready.  I see no reason to think Snape was in any great danger or 
> behaved in an especially brave manner.  I don't think Snape was being 
> brave to follow Lupin; I believe he knew the cloak would protect him, 
> and he also knew the full moon wasn't up yet.

But he didn't know that the invisiblity cloak was there *until* he got to the 
Whomping Willow. He just saw Lupin run in there on the Marauder's Map. If 
that cloak hadn't been there, I think Snape still would have followed them 
in. But because it was there he was using it to his advantage. 

~Cassie~ 


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