Dragons / Trelawney / Memory Charm / Snape / Crouch / Longbottom

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No: HPFGUIDX 36820

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "catlady_de_los_angeles" <catlady at w...>
wrote:

> The knowledge that Potter will be viewed as a hero and memorialized
> at Hogwarts while he is considered a coward bites at him much more 
> urgently than any later thought of life-debt, and causes him to run 
> for help (!) to his Head of House or Headmaster. When he discovers 
> that Potter was Perfectly Safe as an Animagus (note: not Perfectly 
> Safe, considering the werewolf/Padfoot fight in PoA), he is totally 
> convinced that Potter and Black set this up On Purpose to make him 
> run away like a coward. He could believe that Lupin was in on That 
> Plan, as in it, Lupin was not in any danger of biting him (and being 
> sent to Azkaban, or whatever the punishment is for a werewolf who 
> bites a wizard).

It's an interesting theory, but I don't think James got revealed as an
Animagus at the time of the Prank.  Snape certainly didn't know that
Sirius or Peter were Animagi, so I figure he didn't know about James
either.  If he had known, he would've certainly mentioned it to
Dumbledore when he was trying to convince him that all the Marauders
were in on the Prank; and Lupin says Dumbledore never found out about
them.

Marina
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