The Prank -- A New Thought

[bohcoo]

No: HPFGUIDX 80584

msbeadsley wrote in post #80501:
James had been running around with Moony as *Prongs*, not as James. 
It would have been hard for Prongs to stop Snape: no hands.


melpomene wrote in post #80563:
Just try to imagine what would have happend to poor Lupin (reminder--
sirius' FRIEND) if anything had happened to Snape. Even if you 
discount the legal problems, what would it have done to a 16yo mental 
state to have been set up to eat a classmate by 
one of his closest friends?



Now Bohcoo:
Thank you both for your insightful replies. I agree with both of you:

msbbeadsley, I had not considered that James would have had to have 
pulled Snape back as a human so he would have his hands. (And, thanks 
for the chuckle, by the way. You have a humorous way of saying 
things...) As a human he most certainly would have been in danger 
from Werewolf Lupin  -- and from Bat! Snape.

melpomene, you also make a chilling point about the consequences of 
The Prank. It is the horrific nature of the consequences that makes 
me (want to) believe that Sirius thought or knew that Snape could 
transform -- if not into a bat, then into something that could stay 
away from Werewolf! Lupin's jaws. Otherwise, what Sirius did was so 
heartlessly evil it cannot be seen as anything other than cold-
blooded attempted murder. And I just can't see Sirius in that dark a 
light. 

(Sorry about the bat droppings -- it just sprang to mind along with 
the Bat image...)


:)

Bohcoo