James the Berk?

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 105847

Pippin:
> The Marauders were breaking school rules and wizarding law 
> and *deserved* to be expelled for what they were doing, as 
> Sirius knew quite well. Snape following them to try to find out 
> what they were up to is no different than Harry and his friends 
> entering the third floor corridor to try to keep Snape (as they 
> thought) from stealing the stone. 

Batchevra: 
> No, Snape was breaking the rules also, so he deserved to be 
as expelled as  the Marauders did. Snape isn't an innocent 
bystander he chose to spy on them and  he chose to be like 
Draco, who tried to get Harry and Ron expelled. I have  always 
said, I like the characters of Remus, Sirius and Snape, and that 
seems to  be partly what drives these books is that relationship, 
because it is playing  out with Draco and Harry, Ron and 
Hermione. oh, By the way, Harry and his  friends wouldn't have 
been at that third floor corridor had there not been a challenge by 
Draco and his friends.<

Harry entered the third floor corridor twice. The second time, he 
was planning to get hold of the stone before Snape could, and 
when he found that Snape had already entered, he went after 
him. You are quite right that this was a violation of the rules and 
he could have been punished for it.  Dumbledore decided that 
Harry's intentions were noble and so they were, but we don't 
know what Snape's motives were at all. 

All we know is that Sirius thought Snape was trying to get them 
expelled. We don't know why. It's your guess that it was for Draco 
like motives, and that may well be. But it's just as possible that 
Snape, like Harry in PS/SS, believed but could not prove that 
something terrible was happening and tried to stop it the only 
way he could. 


Naturally the staff wouldn't listen to Snape if he told them he 
thought that Lupin's monthly disappearances were suspicious. 
He'd have been told to mind his own business, much as Harry 
was in PS/SS. But  if Snape had made the connection between 
close calls in Hogsmeade and Lupin's absences and didn't 
have proof, he could feel he needed to do something about it, 
couldn't he?.

Pippin