[HPforGrownups] re: Dragons / Trelawney / Memory Charm / Snape / Crouch / Longbottom

[Amanda]

No: HPFGUIDX 36821

Rita wrote:

> In my own view of the Potterverse, 16-year-old Severus feels as
> humiliated and as resentful of the humiliation as in your theory, but
> all he did to be ashamed of was that he (finally!) ran away, leaving
> Potter behind him, between him and the onrushing werewolf (which is
> what Potter had urgently been ordering him to do and he kept refusing
> until the monster was actually approaching). Upon exiting the
> Whomping Willow, he *suddenly realises* that *he* Ran Away, leaving
> Potter as diversion for the monster, while *Potter* has died at the
> teeth of a werewolf to save him!
>
> 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.

Have we any canon evidence at all that Snape had any idea at all that James
et al were animagi? Have we any canon evidence that he did not? I personally
thought he only discovered they were animagi in the Shrieking Shack scene,
one of the only new bits of knowledge he did overhear.

--Amanda, curious