Sirius's prank-Avery Nott in too tight t-shirt

[lucky_kari]

No: HPFGUIDX 33894

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., pigwidgeonthirtyseven <pigwidgeon37 at y...> 
wrote:
>  
> Eileen wrote (about Sirius's prank): 
> 
> <<Not to scare him, as his defenders insist. Not to kill him, as 
Snape 
> insists. But to have Lupin bite him, making Snape a werewolf. 
Maybe, 
> Sirius thought that arrogant, bigoted Snape deserved to see the 
world 
> from the point of the down and out like Lupin. This could 
especially 
> work if Snape was close on Lupin's track, and had almost figured it 
> out. Now, that's a way of silencing somebody. And to Sirius's mind, 
> it's not as bad as we might think. After all, his best friend, 
Lupin, 
> was a werewolf, and that didn't spoil HIS life. (Though, of course, 
we 
> know that it did... later.) Think about it.>>
> 
>  
> 
> I did, but what does it change fundamentally? If not for the worse? 
>To condemn a person to lead the life of an outcast would be even 
>worse than the intention of "just scaring" him. Assuming that by 
>the time of his "prank" Sirius already knew Remus's whole story, he 
>must also have been aware of how difficult it was to have one 
>werewolf at Hogwarts; having two of them seems quite impossible      
>(finding another hiding place, keeping everything secret). So I 
>hope your theory wasn't there to defend Sirius, for it makes him 
>look even more irresponsible- not only towards Remus and Snape, but 
>towards the whole school who would have been in potential danger, 
>had Snape really been bitten.

Well, defending Sirius? It depends. I cannot believe that it was just 
a joke. What was the point of it? Exposing Lupin so that Snape could 
tell everyone? And it's strongly indicated that Sirius had no plan to 
stop things from going to their reasonable conclusion. So, what are 
we going to conclude? That Sirius wanted Snape dead? It's not an 
irrational hypothesis. This "schoolboy prank" thing is not going to 
cut it. He was 16, for heaven's sake. If at the age of 16, you tell 
someone to go into a room where you know there is a ferocious man-
eating polar bear that hasn't eaten for 3 weaks, the judge isn't 
going to be listening to stories about "schoolboy pranks", and "I 
just wanted to scare him." "But Mr. Black," he would say, "Did you 
have any plan to stop the Polar Bear from eating Mr. Snape?" "Err... 
No. But it was just to scare him" As it stands, Sirius is charged 
with murder, the werewolf thing is a turn for the better.

Of course, it's cruel, irresponsible, and ill-thought out. But to a 
sixteen year old, trying to protect one of his best friends from 
having his LIFE ruined, it could seem all too reasonable. That Snape 
was close on Lupin's track seems very likely from Lupin's and Black's 
description of the event. And, there's no doubt he would have told. 
When you see your whole world collapsing around you, you might grasp 
at any straw (mixed metaphors :-) And driving these feelings is the 
headiness of Nemesis. 

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "ssk7882" <theennead at a...> wrote:
>I like to think that if anyone ever handed Lily a too-tight
>MARAUDER MASCOT t-shirt, she would have rammed it down their
>throat, but that's just me.

>And if anyone ever dared to hand the future Mrs. Lestrange 
>such an item, I suspect that she would have hexed them 
>straight into the hospital wing...and then forced Avery 
>to wear the t-shirt.

Hear! Hear!

Eileen