Clear case of attempted murder (was Snape the Iconoclast)

[kiricat2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 78638

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "bluesqueak" <pipdowns at e...> 
wrote:
> --- 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

Got it.  My initial reading of your post (probably too quickly as I'm 
trying like a crazy person to keep up with everything) made it seem 
as if you were stating as canon fact that murder was indeed on 
Sirius' mind.  

Marianne