"I'm not proud of it"

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 106879

Renee wrote:
> 
> > Compare this to his behaviour in the Shrieking Shack scene in 
>>PoA.  There, he isn't sorry at all for sending Snape straight at a 
>>raging  werewolf - 'Served him right.' Maybe the excuse in OotP 
>>isn't  entirely sufficient, but compared to no excuse at all it is 
>>a significant improvement.

Salit wrote: 
> In the shrieking shack Snape is viewed by the participants as an
> enemy. Do they even know he was on Dumbledore's side? All they know
> about him is that he was this Slytherin kid with whom they had so 
many conflicts and who associated with future DE's. In OoP they have 
a more balanced view of Snape (though I personally think he has a 
good chance to become evil again if he is not already)

Potioncat:
Lupin should have known.  He'd worked with Snape all year. Snape has 
suspected Lupin of helping Black and now it appears to Snape that it 
was so.  Keep in mind that at this point, Snape has every reason to 
think that both Black and Lupin are criminals.


Salit: 
> Let's not forget another thing that happened in the Shrieking 
>Shack - that Snape, despite both Sirius' and Remus' protestations 
>to his innocence and offers to have it proved, was all set up to 
>have Sirius delivered to the dementors regardless of any proof to 
>the contrary and was willing to let them kill Sirius in the most 
>horrendous way imaginable because of a childhood grudge. Is it a 
>wonder that Sirius still hated him (and vice versa) in OoP?

Potioncat:
Looks like Snape and Black both have good reasons to continue to 
dislike each other.   But let me point out, when Snape had the 
chance to turn Black over to the Dementors, he didn't. So while he 
threatened it, he didn't do it.
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