What is with the "Prank" ?

[LadySawall at aol.com]

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In a message dated 05/26/2004 6:52:38 AM Eastern Daylight Time, Amber writes:
I would not be 
surprised if suicide was not on his mind even before the prank....and even if 
it 
hadn't got to that point yet...this is the boy who grew up to spy on 
Voldemort, for 
whatever reason, and if he had to take a lethal risk to get the torment to 
stop, or just out of revenge, I wouldn't put it past him....   And Sirius 
walks 
up to him and says, "If you want to know, just prod the knot on the Whomping 
Willow."  In front of witnesses, probably. ( James heard about it, not heard 
it. From who? )  If Snape dies under that tree or comes back to say what he 
saw 
and who sent him to see it,  Sirius and Lupin, and he believes James was 
responsible too, will get what he believes what they deserve for at least 
five 
years of hell.  Expulsion.

But fate or Murphy's Law or whatever intervenes.  James saves his life, and 
it gets hushed up.  And Snape becomes a DE, and you know the rest.

Now for heaven's sake, someone prove me wrong.

Jo Ann:

Sorry, I think it's a coolly evil idea.  I love the perversity of the thought 
that Snape hates Harry because his blood debt to James, carried on through 
Harry, is the only thing stopping him from ending his own miserable life.  And 
though I strongly suspect it's not going to turn out that way, and ultimately I 
really wouldn't want it to (I *like* Severus,) I can't really cite anything 
from canon that disproves it.

Jo Ann


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