Sirius' attempted murder of Snape

[M.Clifford]

No: HPFGUIDX 136008

 Valky wrote : It's a *thousand* times more likely that Sirius thought
he was
doing Snape a big favour and building character in him, than it ever
is that
he was trying to get him killed.

Marianne S:
 I'm not sure about thinking he was doing Snape a "big favor"... but
I have a feeling that Sirius was trying to knock Snape down a peg, 

Valky:
Ahh yeah I actually didn't mean that Sirius thought he was doing Snape
a favour. I literally meant that it's *more likely* that than trying
to kill him. It's clearly unlikely that a favour was at the forefront
of Sirius' mind, but it's a thousand times more likely to have been
than murder ever was. 

Marianne continues:
show him what he's dealing with if he keeps hexing them, 'cause next
time it could be worse than Levicorpus. I believe both Sirius and
Lupin said that Snape hexed and taunted them as much as he was hexed
and taunted by James and Sirius.

Valky:
I agree with your second statement entirely. I stand by what I said
years ago after OOtP "Snape was a special case" *because* he was
formidable.

Marianne:
It makes me almost wonder how Snape got away with it all... why wasn't
his name ever in the files Harry was re-writing?

Valky:
Ahhh now *that*, I believe, but have never been able to convince
anyone yet, is *why they called him Snivellus*.