Are there no depths to which Siriophiles wont sink?

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 99336

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Meredith" <msmerymac at y...> 
wrote:
> 
> Alla:
>  Do you 
> > remember by the way, if PoA addresses how long he had been 
> standing 
> > there in the invisibility cloak. I thought PoA was fuzzy on the 
> > subject, but no I am not so sure.
> > 
> 
> Hey Alla, I'll jump in and answer this, which is the point where we 
> are supposed to believe Snape entered in on the conversation:
> 
> [From "Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs," page 352, American 
> paperback]
>  
> "If you're going to tell the story, get a move on, Remus," snarled 
> Black, who was still watching Scabbers's every desperate 
move. "I've 
> waited twelve years, I'm not going to wait much longer."
> 
> "All right, but you'll need to help me, Sirius," said Lupin. "I 
only 
> know how it began..."
> 
> Lupin broke off. There had been a loud creak behind him. The 
bedroom 
> door had opened of its own accord. All five of them stared at it. 
> Then Lupin strode toward it and looked out into the landing.
> 
> "No one there..."
> 
> "This place is haunted!" said Ron. 
> 
> 
> [snipped the rest of the chapter in which Lupin explains the shack 
> is not haunted, as well as his werewolf transformations, the 
> whomping willow, the animagi and the "prank" on Snape.]
> 
> [same chapter, the very end, page 357, American paperback]
> 
> "So that's why Snape doesn't like you," said Harry slowly, "because 
> he thought you were in on the joke?"
> 
> "That's right," sneered a cold voice from the wall behind Lupin.
> 
> Severus Snape was pulling off the invisibility cloak, his wand 
> pointed directly at Lupin.
> 
> 
> Snape was then knocked out BEFORE Sirius and Lupin explained how 
> Pettigrew must have faked his own death and forced him to transform 
> back into a human.
> 
> Hope that helps!
> 
> ~Luckie, who finds it hard to believe the Shrieking Shack is the 
> most haunted place in Britain, given all the Hogwarts ghosts.


Thanks, Luckie!

So, canon clearly hints that Snape did not hear the whole story. So, 
I will give him the benefit of the doubt for now. May change my mind 
tomorrow though, we all know that Snape can move really quietly. Who 
knows maybe he ad been standing outside all that time? :o)


Alla