[HPforGrownups]Snape & James vs Sirius(WAS Is Snape unfair with House Points?)

[Kelly Grosskreutz]

No: HPFGUIDX 56859

From: "Anne(Anja)" <titaniclady_1912 at hotmail.com>
>
> > On the other hand, his feelings toward sirius have solid grounds to
> > grow up (i'm personaly against any form of retribution, like death
> > penalty but I do understand why snape would hate someone who tried
> to
> > kill him, even unwillingly).
>
> Don't get me wrong , I like Sirius , but I think he really wanted to
> kill Severus. We know that Sirius was James's best friend and this
> makes me wonder whether he decided to kill Snape out of friendship
> for James. Whatever Severus did do to James , in Sirius eyes it must
> have been reason enough to kill him. He probably knew that his
> friend , regardless how much he hated Snape , would never have done
> anything to harm him. So he probably thought it to be best when he
> took the problem in his own hands which he did by telling Severus how
> to get past the Whomping Willow.
> This , again , leads to the assumption that it was indeed a specific
> event which made the quarrel between Snape and the Marauders escalate.
> What do you guys think about that ?

I don't believe that Sirius was truly trying to kill Snape.  I see Sirius as
a person who acts without thinking about the consequences.  He knows that
Snape is obsessed with finding out where Lupin goes every month, he finds
out that Snape saw Lupin and Pomfrey walking across the grounds (can't
remember if he saw anything in connection to the Whomping Willow at the
moment), and he comes up with what, to him, is a brilliant prank.  "That
greasy haired git keeps following us around and won't leave us alone.  I
think I'll give him a scare and see how eager he is to bother us next time!"
So he tells him the secret of the Willow.

I will grant that, even decades later, though, Sirius does not seem to
completely understand what the potential consequences of that little prank
could have been and almost were.  I can see him deciding to scoff at them,
though, figuring that Snape was never in any danger and he could just get
himself out of there.  Maybe he even won't allow himself to acknowledge how
bad what he did was.  I would have thought, though, that even if James's
argument, "Sirius, you could have gotten him killed.  He actually *saw*
Moony down there, all Moony had to do was run down there and Snape'd've been
dead.  And now, thanks to you, he knows Remus's secret!" didn't get through,
you think Remus himself would've had something to say.  "Sirius, *why* did
you do it?  You *know* my worst fear is harming another person while in
werewolf form, and I almost *killed* Severus.  How could you put me through
that?!"

To sum up, I do find it interesting that Sirius, even years later, still
seems to think there was nothing wrong with what he did, but I think it was
more because he didn't think before he acted.

Kelly Grosskreutz
http://www.idcnet.com/~ivanova