Ginny and Sirius

[kiricat2001]

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> And about the whole Sirius discussion I like him and all but IMO 
he's never 
> been quite right. For example when he was in Hogwarts he tried to 
kill Snape. 

Yes, Snape's death could have been a horrible result of Sirius' 
action.  Snape certainly thinks that Sirius was, as he says in 
PoA, "capable of murder at the age of sixteen." But, I defy anyone to 
find, at this point, definitive canon proof that Sirius told Snape 
how to get past the Willow with the deliberate intention of using 
Werewolf!Remus to commit murder.


> Does anyone know if Dumbledore knew about the prank? I'm not 
sure....

I think he knew very well about it, and that he sees in a somewhat 
different light than Snape. In PoA, right after Snape says the bit 
I've quoted above, he then says "You haven't forgotten that, 
Headmaster? You haven't forgotten that he once tried to kill me?"

And Dumbledore's reply is "My memory is as good as it ever was."

My reading of that is that Dumbledore knew of the prank, but, for 
whatever reason, does not see it in the same way as Snape does.  

Marianne, who will be really annoyed if JKR doesn't give us the 
whole "prank" backstory.