[HPforGrownups] Re: James the Berk?

[Batchevra at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 105807

In a message dated 7/12/04 7:17:29 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
arrowsmithbt at btconnect.com writes:
>--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Batchevra at a... wrote:
> 
> Lupin told us that Snape had seen Madame Pomphrey take him to the Whomping 
> Willow to transform, and was interested where he went. Granted Sirius never 
told 
> Snape what was going on, but told him how to get through the Willow. What 
> Snape should have known is that the teachers were somewhat already informed 
about 
> something that should have been kept quiet.Yes, Sirius sent Snape to the 
> Shrieking Shack, but Snape was partly at fault for going. 
> 

There  is one aspect of  this whole affair that (so  far) no-one has
managed to explain:

Just what did Sirius tell Snape and why did Snape believe him?<
That is the question, especially if the Pensieve scene we had seen happened 
first. I don't know what Sirius had said, but Snape already knew that the 
teachers had something going on and it involved Lupin.

>Snape is a  fairly innocent party in this episode - he's nosy but 
he doesn't do anything that could be classed as wrong, no matter
that his motives were selfish. He's the injured party, the one
with something to justifiably complain about. And he would -
vociferously. Yet DD successfully gags him. 

It certainly adds a new dimension to the Snape/DD relationship.
Why would Snape *ever* trust DD again?

Kneasy<

Snape is not innocent, he spied to find something that he could use against 
any of the Marauders, just like Draco in PS/SS was out of his dorm to spy on 
Harry and Hermione when they gave Norbert to Charlie Weasley's friends. If 
Sirius had been expelled, and Lupin thrown out of the school because of what 
happened, Snape would have been expelled also, he was out of bounds and out of bed.

Batchevra


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