Sirius Luring Snape

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 106618

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214" 
<dumbledore11214 at y...> wrote:

> 
> Snape believed Sirius' words of his own free will? If it is so, 
then  he was an idiot, which even I doubt. 
> 
> Why does remus say -"of course Snape tried it?" Why is he so 
sure?<

Heh-heh.Because Eversoevil!Lupin arranged the whole thing. 
(You knew I was going to say that<g>) It's bad enough that 
Snape is watching the willow and it could be the end of the 
Marauder outings, the only thing that makes Lupin's 
transformations bearable. But what's even worse is that those 
reckless idiots James and Sirius aren't going to be put off by 
Snape. They'll take it as a challenge, they'll be sure to think they 
can sneak down to the willow whether Snape is watching it or 
not...and then they'll *all* be caught and expelled, or worse. 
Catastrophe!
 
So Lupin manipulates  Sirius into telling Snape the secret of the 
willow, and uses any of several means to get Snape  to try 
it--imperius, a hotheadedness potion (is that too difficult for 
Lupin to make?) a confundus charm, who knows? But the point 
is, Lupin has nothing to lose. Even if he or Sirius is caught, it's 
still better than all four of them going down. 

If Lupin is caught with the body, nobody need know that Sirius 
had anything to do with it. If Sirius is found to have told Snape 
how to enter the willow, Lupin's role can remain secret. Sirius 
isn't likely to be expelled just for that--and they have the mirrors 
so they can get their stories straight.

Snape's  screams, emanating from the Shrieking Shack, will be 
ignored, and when it's all over, Lupin can transfigure the remains 
(if there are any, werewolves being what they are) and even if 
he's too weak to manage to clean up all the mess, there's 
usually blood and signs of a struggle after his transformations, 
because he bites and scratches himself. The perfect crime. No 
one will ever learn what happened to Snivellus. I can just see 
Lupin persuading himself that it's a noble thing he's doing, 
saving his friends from themselves.

But James has to go and spoil it. Snape lives. Maybe he was  
enchanted, but the shock of seeing the werewolf would lift the 
spell, and everyone would think  he was just trying 
to get the Marauders in trouble as usual, and cover up his own 
culpability. Snape was both out of bounds after dark and in a 
forbidden area --grounds for suspension at the very least. 
Dumbledore is prepared to overlook it, but he wants Snape's 
word that he won't tell anyone about Lupin and he won't go near 
the willow any more.

Pippin