The Prank -- A New Thought

[msbeadsley]

No: HPFGUIDX 80501

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "bohcoo" <sydenmill at m...> wrote:
> Now, since James had been running around with Werewolf! Lupin for a 
> couple of years by the time of the Prank, where was this "great 
> risk to his own life?" Not from Werewolf! Lupin. Couldn't 
> this "great risk to his own life" have come, instead, from a 
> Transformed Snape? 

James had been running around with Moony as *Prongs*, not as James.  
It would have been hard for Prongs to stop Snape:  no hands.  Anyway, 
he probably did not want to blow his Animagus cover.  (Another reason 
I don't believe Snape is a vampire or Animagus or anything himself is 
that I don't see any of the ameliorating effect I would expect that 
to have on his ego:  if he had a "large and in charge" aspect, it 
might do something to ease his memory of having been the whitening 
detergent poster boy.)

Sandy, aka msbeadsley <stowing Occam's razor under her soapbox>