James and Snape was OT:To Jeff

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No: HPFGUIDX 82738

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> 
wrote:
<snip> Suppose James had done nothing. Snape's death would have 
> seemed to be a horrible accident . There'd be no Snape around 
> to say that Sirius had told him how to get into the Willow. The 
> Hogwarts governors would want the whole thing hushed up, so 
> in the ensuing cover-up, Sirius and Lupin might have escaped 
> exposure. A desperate gamble, but for Lupin, who says that his 
> friends' company was the only thing that made his 
> transformations bearable, it might have been worth it.

Laura:

Do you really think that Lupin would have been allowed to stay at 
Hogwarts if he'd killed Snape?  Yes, the governors would have hushed 
up as much of the incident as possible, but these things have a way 
of getting out.  No one ever says that Remus encouraged the other 3 
to become animagi so they could hang out with him.  In fact, judging 
from what teenage!Sirius says in OoP, at least he looked forward to 
the full moon more than Remus did.
> 
> 
>  James didn't only save Snape, he caught him out of bounds. 
> The Willow was forbidden because of Davy Gudgeon's eye. 
> Snape  could have been expelled if he was caught there  again.
> Ergo, no more spying, and the Marauders' secret remained safe. 
> Whether James  deliberately waited to interfere until Snape had 
> entered the Willow, we don't know. 
> 
> 
Laura:

The problem I have with ESE!Remus (aside from the fact that I like 
him) is that if he turns out to be a bad guy, that means 2 of the 4 
Marauders were in fact DEs.  I can't believe that JKR is quite that 
cynical.  Is the Order really so vulnerable that even people who 
risked their lives the first time around are willing to sell it out 
the second time?