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

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 99123

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> 
wrote:
> --- 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, I perfectly understand his feelings towards Sirius, if he 
indeed truly believed that Sirius betrayed Potters. No doubt about 
that. I am just not completely sure that Snape did not hear the whole 
story, while standing outside the Shack. 



I have to say that PoA is the book where I sympathised most strongly 
with Snape. I am not sure why. Probably because this is the only 
book, where Snape got caught with "carmic justice", so to speak.

In the fictional reality the characters do not necessarily pay for 
their wrongdoings right away, but they usually pay one way or another.

So, in PoA Snape gets humiliated in the boggart scene and Harry and 
Hermione save Sirius right under his nose.
That was very satisfactory. When I was especially annoyed with 
Snape's behaviour in OoP, I sometimes pictured Snape in a  dress. :o)

The same way with Sirius. I consider him spending twelve years in 
Azkaban to be payment in full for whatever he did to Snape in school.



> 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.

Alla, who would have been definitely upset with Sirius for saying 
that, if he said it while being in more stable mental condition and 
not right out of Azkaban.