Snape's Fury (was: The Shrieking Shack-did Snape have ulterior motives?)

[tanzgabu]

No: HPFGUIDX 85815

... Also, in line with all of these speculations which I whole 
heartedly agree with (Except for maybe the Snape loves Lily thing.. 
I'm really sorry, it just seems a little bit overdramatic. Like a 
soap opera maybe. But who knows! It could certainly be true) Snape 
also thought that Black was a murderer and the such. Well, he's been 
around many of those, and surely when they're caught they try to 
make up excuses to get off don't they? Along with all of these other 
emotional things, Snape *might possibly* have had some logic 
working, at least beforehand, that Sirius and Lupin might try to 
weasel their way out of the situation. So he probably came into the 
shrieking shack already ready to not listen to anything they said. 
If he had made a habit out of believing every murderers story, where 
would he be now? He doesn't really come off as a trusting person, 
so... I think if most of us had been in the position, even without 
all of the emotional entanglements he has, that we wouldn't believe 
the story they were putting forward. It would seem like some 
desperate attempt to go free. And what fool would buy into a 
killer's story? Certainly not Snape, in his mind. 

Anyway, that's just my take on part of it. You all have already 
perfectly described the ethos, so I thought maybe I could wedge in a 
little logos. =P 

-tanz