Prank revisited. WAS: Harry begins to act like someone I know

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 99120

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "nkafkafi" 
<nkafkafi at y...> wrote:
> <dumbledore11214 at y...> wrote:
> 
> >
> > Ummm, hate to disturb the Prank again, but we don't know
> what exactly went on in Sirius' head that night, we don't know
> whether he was happily planning to turn Snape over to 
werewolf,
> or scare him badly. <
> 
> Pippin:
> By the same token, when Snape said he was going to turn 
Sirius over to the Dementors, and your little werewolf too, we 
don't know whether he was happily planning to do it, or scare 
them badly.
> 
> Neri:
> Yet he acted extremely disappointed and furious when Sirius 
escaped  his execution by the dementors. Was he putting a 
show? And if so, for  whom? Fudge? Harry?<

Pippin
 If  I had  turned in a terrorist whom I believed to be responsible 
for the death of  someone who saved *my* life, only to see said 
terrorist escape, I'd be disappointed and furious myself.  

 There was no show. At that point, Snape still believed that Sirius 
was guilty, and that Harry and Hermione were confunded. Snape 
was not present when Dumbledore sent Harry and Hermione to 
save Sirius. For all Snape knows, Dumbledore had concluded 
after talking to Harry and Hermione that Snape was right and 
they were indeed confunded. 

Pippin
who is also willing to give Sirius the benefit of the doubt, even 
though he says it would have served Snape right if he'd been 
killed.