James the Berk?

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 105863

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214" 
<dumbledore11214 at y...> wrote:
> 
> > Pippin earlier:
> > > 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. 
> 
> 
> 
> Alla:
> 
> 
> Noble intentions to try and get expelled four boys, who would 
not get  a chance to get an education same quality as Hogwarts 
and as for  Lupin , no education at all? Somehow I don't think so. 
But I could be  wrong, of course.<

Pippin:
You seem to forget what the Marauders were up to. They were 
not cuddling  in  a furry heap in the Shrieking Shack. They were 
taking a werewolf into populated areas, where Lupin might have 
bitten someone. It would have been too bad if they'd been 
expelled and not realized their full potential as wizards, but they 
should have thought of that before they went Marauding, 
shouldn't they?

 Why should  their futures matter more  than the future of the 
innocent people in Hogsmeade they were endangering?  

Alla:
> But even assuming noble intentions on the Snape's part, we 
don't know  what punishment Marauders deserved for becoming 
an Animagi.<

Pippin:
Whatever the punishment for becoming an illegal Animagus, it 
was severe enough to cow Rita Skeeter. Even being out of work 
for a year was preferable. But it's taking Lupin into Hogsmeade 
that is truly reprehensible. I have yet to hear any credible excuse 
for that. 

> Alla:
> 
> 
> No, we don't know what Snape's motives are, but the problem 
> with "Snape thought something terrible was happening... and 
tried to  stop it the only way he could " is as Batchevra pointed out 
that  he  saw Lupin going in Shrieking Shack with Madam 
Pomfrey, so Snape could  make a guess that Teaching Staff is 
already aware of whatever happens  in the Shack and mind his 
own business.
<snip>
> Snape shoud have at least tried to communicate with the 
teacher first.<

Well, we don't know that he didn't, do we? I admit that we don't 
know whether anyone was aware of the close calls in 
Hogsmeade. But suppose that Snape was.  He could have said, 
paraphrasing Harry, " I think that Si- that someone from the 
school is causing trouble in Hogsmeade every full moon."  And 
he'd have been told that Lupin's absences had nothing to do with 
it. And that would have been quite mistaken.

Pippin