Prank

[bluesqueak]

No: HPFGUIDX 80123

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "sylviablundell2001" 
<sylviablundell at a...> wrote:
> Oh come on! A sixteen year old boy wouldnt realize that the nasty 
> jape he was engaged in might actually kill Snape!!  What sort of 
> an idiot was he!Sirius knew perfectly well that his "prank" might 
> involve the death of either Snape or Lupin, he just didn't care, 
> so long as he got a laugh out of it.

The 'we were too stupid to realise' is almost canon. It's Lupin's 
view of the 'werewolf outings'. 

"There were near misses, many of them. We laughed about them 
afterwards. We were young, thoughtless - carried away with our own 
cleverness.' [PoA, UK paperback, Ch. 18 p.260]

In other words, MWPP were the Golden Boys. Nothing could hurt them, 
nothing could go wrong. Everything they did was right. Whatever plan 
Sirius came up with would scare Snape to death, but couldn't go 
wrong enough to kill him. No, the Golden Boys were too clever for 
that [grin].

Sirius, frankly, was a pillock. Which he shows in PoA, GoF and OOP. 

I mean, sorry, but what does he actually *do* in GoF apart from 
worry Harry half to death because Sirius has put himself in deadly 
danger for him? 


Pip!Squeak [grinning, ducking and running]