Are there no depths to which Siriophiles wont sink?

[meriaugust]

No: HPFGUIDX 99267

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "ladyramkin2000" 
<ladyramkin2000 at y...> wrote:
> I simply can't believe some of the excuses the Sirius-lovers are 
> coming up with to defend their darling.  So Snape may have 
possibly 
> recruited Regulus into the DE (evidence??). This makes Sirius 
cross 
> and it is understandable (though not, of course, justifiable)that 
he 
> should want to feed Severus to his werewolf friend. Oh, he did it 
> just to scare him did he?  How exactly was he going to prevent 
Snape 
> being torn limb from limb? If he really didn't anticipate the 
> consequences of what he was doing, then he WAS an idiot.  If he 
did, 
> he was prepared to let Snape die.  
> 
> Sylvia (who doesn't expect to make many friends)

Yes, Sirius was an idiot. And he admits that. In Order he says that 
he and James were "arrogant little berks" and that he is not proud 
of some of the things they used to do at school. And that, IMHO, is 
the big difference between Snape and Sirius. Sirius was able to 
admit that he was wrong to do those things, while I have always seen 
Snape paint himself as a martyr. He has sainted himself, and in five 
books I have never seen him once admit responsibility for something 
he did wrong. And everyone, and I mean everyone has done stuff that 
they're not proud of, even really stupid things like the prank. But 
I think we should all bare in mind here that we don't know the whole 
story. A few snippets from slightly biased sources and a dip into a 
possibly biased Pensieve is no way to judge three characters (James, 
Snape, Sirius) about whom we know so little. I am patiently waitng 
for JKR to explain...

Meri - who wonders if there are no depths to which Snapephiles won't 
sink to defend that man...