Sirius' attempted murder of Snape

[Cathy Drolet]

No: HPFGUIDX 136045

Lisa responds:  
>>My problem with that explanation is that Sirius, James and Peter are
unregistered animagi -- they became such so that they could hang
around with Lupin and not be in danger.  Therefore, they all knew that
danger existed to anyone else

CathyD now:

Wow, this is getting out of hand.  Attempted murder?  DD says Sirius was not a cruel man. Yes, at that moment he was talking about his dealings with Kreacher.  However.  Doesn't anyone see that Sirius sent Snape to the Whomping Willow to get... Whomped?  Certainly he told him all he had to do was prod the knot...but did he think he'd achieve that or get the snot beaten out of him by the tree?  Or, Snape get caught there by the tree (Lupin said they were banned from going near it after Davey Gudgeon nearly lost an eye) and get himself expelled instead of getting the Marauders expelled as he was trying to do?

Alla said:
>>Oh, and here is my favorite question of all times why would Snape
stop 
and listen to ANYTHING Snape says?  <-- I think you meant Sirius

CathyD again:

Heck, I've been wondering THAT for years.  Remember when Umbridge offered Harry some tea, and the cat plates on the wall reminded him of Moody's blue eye?  He wondered what Moody would think of him accepting a drink from a known enemy.  Although we know it was fake Veritaserum, he didn't at the time, but that memory was enough to make him not drink the tea.  What WAS Snape thinking listening to anything Sirius would tell him to do?  

Marianne S said: 
>> 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. 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?

CathyD again:
For the same reason that Malfoy's name never ended up there, perhaps?  Maybe Slughorn was the Snape of his day..and Snape would have been a favourite (I don't doubt he was in the Slug Club).  Of course, we don't see Snape as a favourite of Slug's here, because he's too busy kissing up to Harry with stories about Lily.

Guru said:
>>The least he should have expected was that they were going to take his
wand, strip him naked, and use a binding curse to tie him to the WW. I
mean, what did he expect from a bunch of rowdy frat boys?

CathyD:
EXACTLY!



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