The prank and 'turning points' (was Re: Sirius Luring Snape)

[huntergreen_3]

No: HPFGUIDX 106569

Lissa wrote:
>> The more I think about it, the more I think the prank might have 
been a turning point for Sirius. Dumbledore seems to be the king of 
deftly-crafted guilt trips, with Lupin as his crown prince. Between 
the two of them (and James, who was obviously ticked), I'm betting 
money Sirius got some major emotional torture afterwards. But the 
fact it was so childish and so crude leads me to think he didn't 
spend hours coming up with ways to lure Snape. <<

HunterGreen:
Except that Sirius *still* doesn't feel remorseful for his actions. 
In PoA he sneers about it, commenting that it 'served Snape right'. 
Now I don't think that he actually wanted to *kill* Snape, I just 
think that he doesn't get how serious what he did was. 

However, I do think the prank might have been a turning point for 
James. we know from Sirius and Lupin that at some point James grew up 
a little, and that's why Lily started going out with him. What if the 
prank happened toward the end of his sixth year? It could have been 
the impetus for him to realize how stupid he was being, and how 
easily things could go too far. He was still hexing Snape after that, 
but I doubt he ever purposefully turned it into a big spectacle like 
he did in the pensieve. It may very well have been what made James 
grow up, too bad it didn't have the same effect on Sirius...