Snape and those Troublemakers (was Snape (still!)

[marinafrants]

No: HPFGUIDX 33806

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "kiricat2001" <Zarleycat at a...> wrote:
> Snape: Sirius Black showed he was capable of murder at the age of 
> sixteen...You haven't forgotten that, Headmaster?
> 
> Dumbledore: My memory is as good as it ever was, Severus.
> 
> That exchange has always struck me as a case where two people 
viewed 
> a past incident differently.  Snape is still convinced that Sirius 
> truly intended to murder him, using Lupin as a weapon.  
Dumbledore, 
> it seems to me, sees a different, and perhaps a more encompassing 
> view of the whole picture.  
> 

I wonder if Snape was projecting his own mindset on Sirius here? 
(Most people do have a tendency to do that, after all.)  Snape is a 
calculating, intellectual kind of guy.  *He* would never set 
somebody up for an encounter with a werewolf unless he meant to kill 
them.  So he assumes everyone else must think that way too.  He 
wouldn't understand the mindset of an impulsive, emotional guy like 
Sirius, who could pull a stunt like this on the spur of the moment 
without thinking through the consequences.

Marina
rusalka at ix.netcom.com