Clear case of attempted murder (was Snape the Iconoclast)

[bluesqueak]

No: HPFGUIDX 78625

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "kiricat2001" <Zarleycat at a...> 
wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "bluesqueak" <pipdowns at e...> 
> wrote:
> 
> Massive snippage of Snape stuff
> 
> > So Snape could easily have seen it as a case of (pure-blood) 
> > Dumbledore sides with (pure-blood) Potter, Black and Lupin. Even 
> > given a clear case of attempted murder, entrapment, and a 
> > dangerous werewolf, the pure-bloods side with each other.  
> > Whatever views they spout.
> 
> Marianne:
> And, the canon showing definitively that the Prank was a clear 
> case of attempted murder is....where???
> 

In PoA. I'm talking about Snape's *viewpoint*, remember? 

Chapter 20, p.286, Snape: "Sirius Black showed he was capable of 
murder at the age of sixteen. You haven't forgotten that, 
Headmaster? You haven't forgotten that he once tried to kill *me*?" 
[Author's emphasis]

So Snape's viewpoint is that the Prank was attempted murder. 

Dumbledore disagrees with him - but as I said above, Snape could 
easily have seen this as 'pure bloods stick together'.

Pip!Squeak