Prank and the (Second) Pensieve Four (no TBAY here)

[marinafrants]

No: HPFGUIDX 78039

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Saitaina" <saitaina at w...> 
wrote:
> What if Sirius told Peter the day before, ("Hey
> Pete, come here, I've got this AWESOME idea to get back at that
> weasel..."), Peter tells Lily that day, unsure what to do about it,
> Lily is where the hold up is though.  She waits, debating, not 
sure if
> it's
> all a joke or if Sirius is really going through with it until she 
SEES
> Snape head for the Whomping Willow.  She's standing near James,
> tells him, James, who knows what an idiot his friend can be takes 
off
> without a thought to go stop his best friend from becoming a 
murder...

It's possible, but I have trouble imagining Lily waffling like 
that.  The Lily we see in the Pensieve scene is aggressive, 
outspoken, and quite willing to confront people she thinks are being 
jerks.  If Peter came to her and told her that Remus is a werewolf 
and Sirius was going to feed Snape to him, I think she'd do 
something about it immediately.  Even if she did suspect it was a 
joke, she would at the very least confront them about making such a 
tasteless, stupid joke.



> 
> As for not going to Remus...well that I can't explain perfectly
> thought I have two thoughts:
> 
> A. Peter doesn't feel comfortable confronting Remus with this.
> He doesn't want to hurt his friend by saying their other best 
buddy's
> going to try to use him as a weapon of revenge.  It would destroy 
the
> friendship the four have.

I can kind of see that, I suppose.  Peter does seem like the kind of 
guy who would not have wanted to make waves inside the group.  But 
it seems to me that by revealing Remus' secret to an outsider, he 
was running a high risk of making much bigger and nastier waves.  
Going to Remus would've at least made sure that the conflict was 
contained within the Marauders.

> Point 2: James could have been a prefect.  Now hold on, stay with 
me
> here.  Remus is prefect up until say...the last part of sixth year,
> about where this event takes place (or any other that we haven't 
seen
> yet).  He does the whole "I'm not worthy" thing to Dumbledore, and
> Dumbledore, unable to talk Remus out of it, hands over the role to
> James, trouble maker yet brilliant student whom he KNOWS can do
> better.  James is a little awed by the power vested in him.  And 
yes,
> he for a bit he sees himself pulling a Slytherin and totally using 
it
> to his advantage.  But maturity creeps in and viola, the James 
Potter
> we all know and love...well, maybe not voila but you get the 
point...I
> hope.

Yeah, I can see that.  I've already argued that Lily could've been a 
prefect in sixth year without having been one in fifth, so it's 
possible that James eventually became one too.  The one thing that 
argues against it is the bit in OOP where Harry asks if his father 
was a prefect, and Sirius says no.  He doesn't say, "Yeah, he was a 
prefect, but not until a year later."  It's possible that he was 
trying to spare Harry's feelings, since Harry was upset at not being 
made prefect himself.  But in that case, wouldn't Sirius have wanted 
to encourage him by saying, "Hey, you could still do it next year, 
just like your Dad?"

Marina
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