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

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 56864

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Anne(Anja)" 
<titaniclady_1912 at h...> wrote:
 This "prank" seems to 
> have been a pretty calculating thing to do. I don't think it was 
some  spontaneous idea that came to his mind one day. To me , 
it looks like  something he had carefully planned before it was 
finally carried out.
> 
> When you think about it , the whole thing would have been less 
> dangerous for Lupin if Severus had actually been killed by the 
> werewolf . <<<

Indeed. Which is why I think that the prank was spontaneous on 
Sirius's part, but carefully planned by Lupin. Sirius was 
manipulated by Lupin, who was an old hand at it. ("I had led 
three fellow students into becoming Animagi illegally...I led 
others along with me.") --PoA ch. 18. Sirius probably didn't think 
beyond the cleverness of tricking Snape into entering a 
werewolf's den, just as he didn't think beyond the cleverness of 
making Peter secret-keeper. 

If  Snape had been killed, would anyone have dared to confess 
that Sirius had been the one to tell Snape how to get into the 
Willow?  It would have looked like Snape had found his way in on 
his own, especially since Snape had a reputation for spying and 
sticking his nose in other people's business. Dumbledore would 
have defended Lupin, thinking that Snape's death was a tragic 
accident. The Board of Governors would have wanted the whole 
thing hushed up like Myrtle's death. So Lupin might well have 
gotten away with it. 

James, Peter and Sirius had little to lose if Snape's spying made 
it too dangerous for them to continue their moonlight escapades. 
They could have just called a halt to it. But Lupin would have lost 
the only thing that had ever made his transformations bearable. 

Pippin
Evil!Lupin theories since message 39362