Snape and the Prank...some thoughts

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 47094

> Penny said:
> > There's also just so much we don't know about the Prank. 
> > What did Snape say or do to motivate Sirius to 
> > tell him how to follow them? What were 
> > Sirius' intentions?  
> > ....we do *NOT* know what Snape did to 
> > motivate the Prank. We can
> > conjecture from now till sundown,
> > but until OOP or Books 6 or 7 clues 
> > us in, we're only guessing. 

Judy:
> This isn't my reading of the canon.  I think we *do* know what 
Snape was doing -- he was sneaking around, trying to get the 
Marauders introuble. He was also being a slimy, oily, 
greasy-haired kid. And that's it. Sirius has had two opportunities 
in canon to say what Snape did to deserve the Prank, and that's 
all he's come up with.  <<

There's even better canon than that. Consider Dumbledore's 
testimony in the Pensieve:

"Severus Snape was indeed a Death Eater. However he 
*rejoined* our side before Lord Voldemort's downfall..." 
(emphasis mine.) 

By that time  Dumbledore knew  enough about Snape to satisfy 
himself that Severus was "now no more a Death Eater than I 
am." Which means that whatever Snape became under LV's 
influence, there was previously a time when he was on "our 
side." I don't believe Dumbledore would have said this if the 
Snape he knew at Hogwarts was a Dark Wizard or a natural 
sociopath. Could it be that Snape  was so suspicious of the 
Marauders because he thought *they* were involved with  Lord 
Voldemort?

Pippin