The Animagi was Re: Giving the map to Lupin (Was: Lupin's vampire essay)

[lizvega2]

No: HPFGUIDX 90188

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "scoutmom21113" 
<navarro198 at h...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> 
> wrote:
> >Um, no. The Prank was probably in their sixth year, but the
> Animagi outings began in the fifth, as Remus says in PoA,
> "Finally, in our fifth year, they managed it."
> 
> LizVega here:

Where is it stated in any book that the 'prank' Sirius played on 
Snape happened in the sixth year? Do we know for sure that it 
happened after the rest of the marauder's  became animagi? I thought 
the only information we have on the matter is when Lupin/Sirius 
tells Harry and such that James found out about Sirius' trick, and 
went down the tunnel after him, but not before Snape saw Lupin as a 
werewolf. If the marauder's were already animagi, then wouldn't 
Sirius have been running the risk that Snape would have found out 
about the animagi too? I'm speculating, obviously (Unless there is a 
direct reference to the year when the 'prank' was played- then I'm 
just wrong!)but, wouldn't it be more likely that Sirius played 
the 'prank' before the marauder's could join Lupin themselves?