The length of the Pensieve Scene

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> Pippin:

snip.

> Anyway, I think there is an interpretation being missed here. 
> When Sirius says "I'm not proud of it," and JKR underlines that by 
> having Lupin give him a quick look, it's because there's been a 
> change. In the Shrieking Shack, Sirius defended his attack on 
> Snape "It served him right. Sneaking around, trying to find out 
> what we were up to...hoping he could get us expelled." 
> 
> But Sirius has grown up a bit in the two years since he said that, 
> and though he still doesn't like Snape, he's not blaming the 
> victim any longer. Harry doesn't notice this because he's 
> invested in seeing Sirius as the victim of Snape's goading, but 
> Sirius has started to outgrow his old feelings toward Snape.


Alla:

Well, I stated earlier that the only reason Sirius said "serves him 
right" in the  Shack is because he just left Azkaban and his worst 
feelings were replayed over and over again in his head for twelve 
years.
That to me also meant that their animosity must have been more 
serious than we can assume.

Regardless, Sirius' not blaming Snape anymore does not sound to me 
as mutually exclusive to the (mainly speculative, but also based on 
some inferences, which I also stated before) possibility that Snape 
also did his fair share of nasty things to Marauders.