Dishwashers , Puppy hunts and werewolf excursions

[naamagatus]

No: HPFGUIDX 39859


> Naama says:
> > But why would Dumbledore have kept quite about it [the Maurauders 
> > being Animagi] then? I mean, you have quite a nice theory about 
why 
> > he has to keep silent now, but why keep silent *then*? According 
>>to your scenario, Dumbledore knows that four teenagers that are 
>>under his charge, are breaking the law while putting themselves and 
>> others at risk. Breaking the law, mind you, not just school 
>>rules.
> 

> My theory means that Dumbledore doesn't find out about the 
>Maurauders until *after* the Prank.
> 
> I have always assumed the 'werewolf' excursions stopped after the 
> Prank. I don't think there's any canon evidence either way; but I 
> would assume that after the near-death of a student, James and 
Sirius would have been very strictly forbidden, on pain of expulsion, 
to go near Lupin in his werewolf state. There would then have been no 
>real risk in the Maurauders being Animagi.
> 

Yes, if Dumbledore had found out that James and Sirius hang around 
Transformed!Lupin then he would most certainly have forbidden them to 
do that. 
But ... exactly how could Dumbledore forbid them to go near 
Transformed!Lupin without revealing that he knows about their being 
Animagi? It would have been pretty weak, wouldn't it, to tell clever 
17 year olds that they mustn't go near werewolves. Like, duh, don't 
they know that already? Nobody in their right senses would go near a 
werewolf in human form. Can Dumbledore really make it believable that 
that's what he thinks they have been doing? Hanging around Lupin as 
humans? Can he make it believable that he thinks they can be that 
stupid? (and WHY should he, anyway?!)
 
If Dumbledore found out that they were all illegal Animagi, running 
about with a werewolf, he would have probably expelled them. Being 
the great second-chance-give that he is, he may have decided against 
that. But, in that case, he would have made it extremely clear to 
them how wrong they have been. He would have particularly made Lupin 
see how dangerously he had been behaving.  

> Leaving aside the question of how much Dumbledore really cares 
>about breaking laws per se; I suspect that it would be very much in 
>his philosophy to let law-breakers decide for themselves whether to 
>admit to 'harmless' law-breaking - he would leave it up to the 
>Maurauders to decide whether to register. 
> 

Dumbledore may not be a stickler for rules per se, but I don't see 
him allowing his students to break the law for the sheer fun of it. 

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Naama