more Prank, explaining Sirius

[grey_wolf_c]

No: HPFGUIDX 34984

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Erin Ridgeway" <puddin210 at h...> wrote:
<snip theory of Sirius' prank on Snape>

So. Sirius stalks off, and after he cools down he starts thinking. He 
realizes he probably shouldn't have told Snape all that. But then he 
starts to rationalize what he did. He reminds himself that even though 
Remus is a werewolf, he's still Remus. He *knows* what the textbooks 
say about werewolves, but surely Remus wouldn't be like that, even in 
wolf form. He simply cannot wrap his mind around the idea that Remus 
isn't Remus when he's in werewolf form, or that Werewolf!Remus might 
kill Snape. And after all, he and James and Peter had been cavorting 
around Hogwarts and the surrounding area with him (granted, they were 
in Animagus form, but still...) for more than a year, and he'd never 
tried to hurt them.

<snip: rest of theory>
And there, ladies and gentlemen, is my Theory. Be gentle, I've never 
put forth any sort of theory before.

Erin, who would very much like a SINISTER membership
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Good theory, almost, but I think I found a major flaw in it (I've 
included the paragraph were it's most clear, but affects the whole 
theory).

You base Sirius reasoning in that he feals that Lupin won't attack 
someone while in wolf-form because he's still has Lupin's mind. This, 
unfortunately, is shown by Canon to be compleatly false. Sirius, James 
and Peter were forced to learn how to become animagus precisely 
because, in that form, either could escape from the wolf (Wormtail), or 
submit it (Prongs and Padfoot). It is a major fact in Canon that, until 
the recent discovery of the wolfbane potion, werewolves were compleatly 
wild, and that their human alter-egos could not control them in any 
maner whatsoever. I don't see how Sirius, who's main job when 
transforming into padfoot was to submit Lupin's wolf-form, could have 
for one moment (even when trying to justify himself), forget that.


Hope that helps

Grey Wolf