[HPforGrownups] Snape and the Nicknames

[Kelly Grosskreutz]

No: HPFGUIDX 68070

Amanda wrote:
> Apologies if this has been aired, I have not even remotely been following
> everything. Not even all the Snape stuff (gasp).
>
> Okay, I fail to see how Snape could have missed that Sirius called James
> "Prongs" in his memory. It was not the references they were making amongst
> themselves, which we can argue away as the Pensieve's ability to record
the
> totality of the moment rather than the perspective of the rememberer. It
was
> when Snape was right there and Lily had just refused to go out with James.
>
My theory?  He *did* know their nicknames.  After all, Harry did shout to
him in Umbridge's office something about Padfoot.  He fully expected Snape
to know who Padfoot was, and Snape did know it was Sirius.

Kelly Grosskreutz
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