Snape at school was Should Harry have told on DJU

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No: HPFGUIDX 100457

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> 
wrote:
> > We all realize it was very hard on Sirius to be back at Grimmauld 
> Place where he used to suffer abuse on a daily basis, even 
> though the abusers are gone and he is now master of the 
> house. We're inclined to make excuses for his sullen mood and 
> his unkindness toward Kreacher on that account. What is it like 
> for Snape to be at Hogwarts, where he suffered the same sort of 
> thing? 
> 
> Pippin


Oh, but the problem for me was that Sirius HAD to stay at Grimmauld 
place, because Dumbledore ordered him so (yes, Pippin, I know - he 
could have gone back to hiding to the beach, but I don't think it is 
a very reasonable option for Sirius, who is willing and ready to 
fight :o)).

As to Snape, I am not entirely sure that I am buying that he has to 
stay at Hogwarts because someone else ordered him so. I am more 
likely to buy that he is staying there, because he is a wanted man 
among the DE ( I don't subcribe to the theory that he went back to 
spying in OOP, at least not in the conventional way)


Grrr, it comes out that the parallels are there (Sirius as we all 
know is a wanted man too. :o))


OK, let me try again. Snape has other options available to him. If he 
wants to risk his life for the good of the order, he can. Sirius, 
thanks to Dumbledore, does not have this option in OoP.
As far as we know, Dumbledore did not give Snape direct orders to 
stay and teach in Hogwarts, although of course, we may learn the 
opposite in the later books.
I speculate that Snape was quite content to stay at Hogwarts if the 
alternative was either to die at Voldie's hands or to go to Azkaban.



By the way, that is not the reason why I am making allowances as to 
Sirius' treatment of Kreacher. 


Kreacher is a horrible being and really, Sirius treated him MUCH 
better than Malfoys treated Dobby, IMO.


Alla