Prank/On posting.

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No: HPFGUIDX 80247

> Richard:
> >>But I doubt he INTENDED to KILL Snape, even if it was much easier 
> for Dumbledore and Snape to see it that way.>>

> Kirstini
> You know, I don't think Dumbledore has ever seen it that way. If he 
> had really deduced from the Prank that Sirius was "capable of 
> murder", would he have left the boy at school? Relatively 
unpunished? 
> Yes, Snape's life was in danger, yes, he could have died. But 
> Dumbledore did not condemn Sirius as an intentional killer.
>  There was a thread on this topic recently, discussing Snape's 
> reaction to the Prank, and one possibility mooted was that Snape 
> joining the DEs evolved as part of a reaction to the injustice he 
> felt at what he saw as Sirius' insufficient punishment.
>

Laura:

This leads me to ask a question I've been wondering about for a 
while.  Although I'm not a conspiracy theorist (I think Kneasy has 
cornered that market <g>), I do have to wonder about DD and what he 
knew about the Marauders.  He says in PoA that they managed to keep 
their transformations a secret from him.  I find that very hard to 
believe.   Three boys, 2 of whom were the best and coolest students 
in the school, left their dormitories 3 nights a month and stayed out 
all night, and this went on for the better part of 3 years, and DD 
didn't know about it?  (I'm excluding Remus here since obviously DD 
did know about his full-moon activities.)  And how did James, Sirius 
and Peter get through their classes after one of their all-night 
adventures?  Even a 16 year old boy is going to feel the effects of 3 
nights of no sleep.  DD knows everything that goes on of any 
significance at Hogwarts-how could he not have known about this?  

Pip!Squeak's post 39146 offers a very convincing theory...even though 
I hope it's not true...