James and Snape. /prank?

[kmcbears1]

No: HPFGUIDX 114013

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "finwitch" <finwitch at y...> 
wrote:
> 
> > > Alla:
> > > 
> > > Eh, I will be the first one to say that we don't know much 
about 
> > > Prank yet, but Snape knew that Remus is a werewolf and still 
went 
> > > there?
> > > 
> > > I doubt it. 
> > 
> > RL now
> > I was answering someone who thought Snape discovered Remus's 
> > condition by listening to the Marauders' post exam conversation, 
> and 
> > I went from there. I don't really think Snape's stupid, I only 
> > dislike him very much and I thought if the poster was right then 
he 
> > must be dumb. Sorry my meaning got across the wrong way. Things 
> seem 
> > so much clearer when I think them than when I write them...
>  
> Finwitch:
> 
<snip>  BUT if all Marauders were absent too - keeping 
> company, as they used to do (or study animagi before that) - that's 
> not much of a clue, is it?)
> 
kmc:

All the Marauders weren't absent until 5th year.  
James, Sirius and Peter were curious where Remus went the first 
year.  Remus was afraid they wouldn't be his friends if they found 
out.  They discovered the truth... and took 3 years to figure out how 
to become animagi.  They succeed in their fifth year.

I am beginning to lean toward the theory that they all had to be in 
the same house for Snape to notice that Remus disappeared once a 
month.  

No wonder Snape picks on Gryffindors. Was he ostracised by his own 
house?  Remember how Harry feels when Seamus thinks he is the hier to 
Slytherin in COS.  Harry still had Ron and Neville.  Dean was a 
neutral party. 

He did not know until the prank that Remus was a werewolf.  Did James 
pull Snape back to save him or to protect Remus from exposure?  Puts 
a different slant on the whole prank.  And where was Peter during 
this whole incident?  

kmc