[HPforGrownups] Re: The length of the Pensieve Scene

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 118276


--- curlyhornedsnorkack <easimm at yahoo.com> wrote:

>> As for exposing Remus' secret: the person who did that was Sirius
>> Black, one of his closest friends, and that apparently happened
>> in the next school year, according to canon.
> 
> I can't remember this - where is it? Are you referring to the part
> in POA where Sirius admits luring Snape into a trap?
> If so: 
> It's possible that Sirius could have tried to solve the Snape
> problem
> by having Snape be bitten by a werewolf. If he did not die he would
> become a werewolf, and Snape, who would be in the same position as
> Lupin, would lose his compulsion to expose Lupin as a werewolf. 
> 
 [snip]
> I haven't actually written anywhere that I think Snape deserved
> what
> happened to him, but I have provided a realistic motive besides
> boredom for the Marauders. There is a difference between "motive"
> and
> "excuse".  Also, I am not condemning Snape, I am suspecting him of
> spying. Snape could think he's spying for the good of Hogwarts!
> After
> all, even Lupin said no parent would want a werewolf in the school.
>
> "curlyhornedsnorkack" 
>


Snape didn't know that Lupin was a werewolf until he saw him during
the Prank, when he and James were in the tunnel.  Where did you get
the idea that Snape already knew?  

Magda


		
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