Did Petigrew do it?Re: Responsibility for the prank ...

[tex23236]

No: HPFGUIDX 34925

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "kiricat2001" <Zarleycat at a...> wrote:
 
>   I always 
> felt that he wanted to keep everyone's focus on Pettigrew in the 
> Shrieking Shack and that discussion of this incident would have
taken 
> a lot more time to fully explain to the Trio.

> I agree that Sirius does consider the prank to have been his idea.
I 
> don't think that Sirius cares enough about it in the Shrieking
Shack 
> to want to spend any time rehashing it.  He wants to get Pettigrew.

Was Pettigrew not "in" on this trick?  I wonder if PP in some way
set it off?  Probably Snape could scare anything out of PP, 
including the Marauder's secrets.  I wonder if there was anything
Snape didn't know about the Marauders that Black could have
told him.

All students knew about the Whomping Willow Tree, but not how
to calm it. PP might have told him that.

Many astute Hogwarts students would have figured out Lupen was
a werewolf,  just as Hermione did.  Werewolves are interesting to
kids. More so to wizard kids. There is a library.  A wizard _knows_
what phase the Moon is in, and probably in which house, at any 
time. It's part of wizard life.

Snape's question for Black,  is: where does Lupin go during full 
moon? Or he may have followed the Maraudeers or just Lupin.

We don't know the exact information Black gave him for the prank.
Nor do we know PP's part in the prank.

Tex, who is up way past bedtime.