Harry's detention - James saved Snape's life incidentg

[colebiancardi]

No: HPFGUIDX 135921

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Ladi lyndi <ladilyndi at y...> wrote:
> Steve  wrote:
> 
> So, I'm not absolving anyone of any guilt. Sirius made a young
> implusive and dangerous choice, and so did Snape. There is no
> indication that Sirius truly intended Snape to be killed. He was
> certainly short sighted, rash, and irresponsible, but we don't know
> for a fact that his intent was for Snape to be killed. Likely, he
> never thought that far ahead; impulsive headstrong teens are not
know for being farsighted. So they are all quilty, and I'm sure they
were all punished. Certainly not punished in the way Snape wanted, but
punished none the less.
> 
> Just trying to keep things in perspective.
> 
> 
> Lynn:
>  
> Perspective?  We have to keep things in perspective?  Well, that
takes all the fun out of it  LOL
>  
> I agree with all you said Steve with an addition.  We know that
Madame Pomfrey takes Lupin over.  For Snape to know where/wonder why
Lupin goes there, he had to have seen Madam Pomfrey and know that
whatever was happening was sanctioned by the administration.
>  
> Let's face it, Snape isn't stupid and he had to have had a pretty
good idea that whatever was happening, if he hadn't figured it out
already, had to be very serious for Madam Pomfrey to take Lupin
secretly away from the castle.
>  
> Sirius tells us that Snape kept trying to get the Maurauders
expelled.  My impression is that Snape probably had a good idea what
was happening to Lupin and just wanted proof.  After all, it is a bit
of a coincidence that a shack becomes haunted - once a month - a new
tree is planted that hits those who come near it and now Madam Pomfrey
is escorting a student through that tree every month.  Hmmmm, for
someone like Snape, intent on being nosy, it's a pretty good bet he
had some idea of what was going on.  After all, we know from the
pensieve scene that he had overheard the Mauraders talking about Lupin
being a werewolf.  
>   

but what Sirius did was a crime - something that should have gotten
him expelled.  Even Lupin, in PoA, stated..."Well, of course, Snape
tried it - if he'd got as far as this house, he'd have met a fully
grown werewolf - but your father, who'd heard what Sirius had done,
went after Snape and pulled him back, at great risk to his
life...Snape glimpsed me, though, at the end of the tunnel.  He was
forbidden by Dumbledore to tell anyone, but from that time on he knew
what I was..."

so, Snape COULD have been killed or turned into a werewolf.  And
James's life was in great danger too, of either being killed or
turned.  What Sirius did was inexcusable - despite Snape trying to get
them expelled, there is nothing in the books that has Snape trying to
kill any of his classmates in school.  Why DD didn't expell him, I
don't know...
colebiancardi