[HPforGrownups] Snape in the Shrieking Shack (was re:time-turning)

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 112746

> Hannah: 
> I'm still not sure when Snape realised that
> Black was innocent - if it was after this scene, or before.  Once
> he 
> sees that DD is convinced, maybe he just decides to give in.  My 
> original theory was that he knew Sirius was innocent all along
> (from 
> just after GH), but decided not to say anything in revenge for 'the
> prank.'


He genuinely thought Sirius was guilty.  Only if Sirius was really
and truly guilty would Snape have derived the most unspeakably
wonderful satisfaction from turning him in.  Snape's pinned a lot of
his own personal self-esteem on being right about Sirius Black for
over 20 years while everyone else - including that uber-prat James
Potter - was completely taken in by Sirius' so-called charm and
supposed good looks.  Only by presenting a guilty Sirius Black to
Dumbledore and saying "Ah ha!  NOW you have to admit that I was
right!  But no matter.  I forgive you, Headmaster for doubting me all
thse years."  

An innocent Sirius being dementored would not have been satisfying at
all.  It ignores Snape's iron morality with his exquisitely honed
sense of fairness.

Magda



		
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