Sirius Luring Snape

[Lissa Hess]

No: HPFGUIDX 106494

Nora:

>And by the way, dear Kneasy, hell is freezing over...like you, I
>can't make the situation of Snape and DD and the 'prank' make ANY
>sense at all.  Why would he go?  How did it work?  Damnifiknow.


Lissa:

I'm completely confounded as well as to how Dumbledore shut Snape up (aside 
from my purely speculative former-friend-of-Lupin theory), but I was 
talking to a friend the other night and she pointed something out:

Did Sirius actually have to have a conversation with Snape to get him to go 
into the Shrieking Shack?  I can't remember if it's been specifically 
stayed or not.

Maybe Sirius knew Snape was following him, and went over and prodded the 
knot, making a show of being stealthy (if that makes any sense).  Maybe he 
said really loudly to James, "Oh, any idiot can get into that tunnel we 
take.  All you have to do is prod the knot- whoops!" when Snape was 
listening.  Either of those methods might be "telling" Snape but not trying 
to convince him he should go.

Although I feel like there's a lot more backstory with Snape and MWPP, I 
wonder if JKR's said all she's going to say about The Prank?  Maybe it was 
just an illustration of how absolutely reckless and thoughtless Sirius 
could be, and how much he hated Snape, as well as motivation for Snape to 
truly hate Lupin when he showed up 12 years later as a fellow 
professor.  (Snape: Ha!  You might be a professor, but I have TENURE!)

I'd also love to know if the incident matured Sirius at all, once he 
realized the effect it could have had on Lupin.  (Also wonder if that's 
when Lupin learned to stand up to Sirius!)

Anyway, the point was Sirius could have been more "subtle" (if that's the 
word you'd use here) than throwing his arm around Snape's shoulders and 
saying, "hey, buddy!  Let's go to this cool spot I found!"

But afterwards... I'll join the legions of the confused!
Lissa