TBAY: Prank and the Pensieve Four

[marinafrants]

No: HPFGUIDX 78205

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "derannimer" <susannahlm at y...>
wrote:
> Marina looks across the room at the corner table where
> Derannimer is sitting. "What?"
>
> "Well, I know you're in mourning, but that's no excuse!"
>
> "Huh?"
>
> "You're disregarding the canon that got Pip started on all of this
> the *last* time around! As Lupin is telling Harry about the Prank
> in the Shrieking Shack, he says that "James heard what Sirius
> was planning" and went to save Snape. James *heard* what
> Sirius was planning, which implies -- and everyone agreed on
> this one last time -- that Sirius himself didn't tell him!"

Marina shrugs, unconcerned, and holds out her glass toward George, 
who obligingly refills it.

"I don't think we can read too much into that.  The Shrieking Shack
conversation is a tense, emotionally fraught sequence when people 
aren't choosing their words as carefully as they otherwise might, 
and Remus is describing an even that happened almost twenty years 
ago and which he himself did not witness.  Hell, in the hailstorm of 
accusations, recriminations and desperate cover-ups that must've 
followed the Prank, no one may have ever gotten around to telling 
Remus exactly how James found out.  In fact, if Remus knew that 
James had found out from Peter, I would've expected it to be 
mentioned, what with Peter standing right there.  If not by Remus, 
then by Peter himself, in an attempt to remind Remus what a good and 
helpful friend he'd been in the past.  Lord knows Peter tried 
everything else..."

Marina leans back in her chair, cradling her glass of Lagavulin 
lovingly in her hands.

"So that's my theory and I'm sticking to it," she says.  "Acronym or 
no acronym."

Marina
rusalka at ix.netcom.com