Sirius Luring Snape

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 106663

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

> I was trying to figure out why Snape followed Marauders int he 
first  place? I refuse to think that his initial motivations were to
get 
> them in trouble.
> 
> I want to think he wanted to be liked and accepted by them and 
was  not. Maybe Remus knew that Sirius /or James and Snape 
were somehow  related (cousins, I don't know)
> 

But everyone with pureblood  ancestry is related, though they 
may not be willing to associate with one another. Sirius says 
Snape and James hated each other from the moment they first 
set eyes on each other and that James was every thing Snape 
wanted to be. There could be some thwarted hero worship 
underneath it all.

I have the idea  that Snape might have  polyjuiced himself into 
James at some point, and that Sirius found out about it but 
couldn't prove it without getting the real James into trouble too 
(since he was somewhere he wasn't supposed to be at the 
time.)

BTW, I don't think we can prove anything by what got left out of a 
movie. Septology clues can get moved around--JKR did it herself 
by moving the half blood prince from Book Two to Book Six.  
Backstory can be filled in at any time.

Pippin