[HPforGrownups] Re: James the Berk?

[Batchevra at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 106509

In a message dated 7/16/04 12:38:16 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
justcarol67 at yahoo.com writes:
>Batchevra wrote:

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.

Carol responds:
We really don't know Severus' motive, do we? Why would he think that
Lupin was doing anything wrong if he was being taken to the Shrieking
Shack by Madam Pomfrey? Do we know that Severus actually saw the other
three Marauders on their way to join him? Surely they would have worn
the invisibility cloak. And he certainly never saw them transform into
animals or he'd have told Dumbledore about it in PoA.<

I didn't say I knew Snape's motives, but I do know that Dumbledore told the 
school that the Whomping Willow was off limits to the student body, because 
Davey Gudgeon almost got his eye hurt. We know this because Lupin told Harry when 
he was asking about Harry's broom. So Snape was already breaking a school 
rule when he went through the Whomping Willow to the Shrieking Shack. We know 
that the Shack is on the outskirts of Hogsmeade and off Hogwarts campus, so 
another school rule that Snape broke. 

Batchevra


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