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

[Lynx412 at AOL.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 112885

In a message dated 9/12/2004 9:23:17 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
mgrantwich at yahoo.com writes:

> 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."  

       This I agree with. I think that somewhere deep inside the part of 
Snape's character that made him a DE he truly believed that a friendship like the 
one James and Sirius shared had to be false, that someone like Sirius, with 
his family connections would backstab a friend with ease.

> 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.

       This I quibble with. I think Snape might have appreciated the irony of 
the man who'd tried to kill him so long ago being kissed for something he 
hadn'd done. Especially as it seems that Sirius was never punished for his 
actions in the prank. I don't believe he'd have taken it upon himself to arrange it, 
but an "Ooops, too late" would have been an ironic victory.

       The Other Cheryl


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