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

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 99458

Alla wrote:
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And, as I said there are possible understandable reasons of why 
Sirius got very angry at Snape. Possible recruitment of Regulus is 
one of them.
 
 
Carol:
Whatever reason Sirius had for choosing that moment to send Severus
into grave danger, I don't think it had anything to do with recruiting
Regulus to the Death Eaters. Severus himself was only fifteen, and
judging from his obsessive reexamination of the DADA exam after he had
turned in his answers, his mind was on his OWLS, not on joining the
ranks of the Dark Lord or recruiting others to do so. It's most
unlikely that he was a Death Eater at that early age. (IMO, he didn't
join till he was out of school, but there's no canon to prove that.)
And Regulus was even younger, about twelve IIRC--too young to be a
Death Eater even if he wanted to be.

And Sirius and Regulus weren't close, in any case. Sirius's reaction
to his brother's death (OoP, "Noble and Most ancient House of Black")
appears to be that the "idiot" got exactly what he deserved.

Carol