Severus and the DADA exam /James

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 123975


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "vmonte" <vmonte at y...> wrote:
vmorte wrote:
Anyway, the marauders are discussing the exam (all the while calling
each other by their animagus nick names). Snape also seems to be
engrossed over the exam as he walks past James. Was Snape also
engrossed over question 10? (Thanks Finwitch for pointing this out.)
Was he putting two-and-two together about Lupin? If so, does it mean
that he already knew what Lupin was when he followed Sirius during
the prank? If so, what was Snape up to? (It really reminds me of PoA
when Snape follows Lupin into the Whomping Willow. Was he planning
on killing Lupin so that he could get some stupid award? Did James
ruin his plan?) 

Tonks replies:
Snape knew a lot about the Dark Arts even then. Did he figure that 
Lupin was a werewolf or something else about Lupin/werewolf that has 
to do with the Dark Arts?  Or did he want to try out a new potion 
recipe that he had. After all if DD and others knew that Lupin was a 
werewolf back then, why would they have allowed him to suffer every 
full moon? Maybe because there was no special potion at that time. 
Maybe young Snape wanted to find the cure?  Not to save Lupin, of 
course, but to get the fame that he craved. I think that Snape is a 
much better potions *Master* than we know. I think that he 
can "stopper death". And DD keeps him in that position because he 
needs him there.

vmonte wrote:
I remember reading somewhere that the books seem to be building on
the theme of mistaken identity and that by the 7th book something
large was going to be revealed. I think that Harry is going to tell
Hermione about this memory and she is the one who is going to figure
out what Snape is all about. She did it with Lupin, she will do it
again.

Tonks replies:
Hummm.  So Harry is really Neville and Neville is really Harry. 
Switched at birth. Nah..  But Snape
 well Hermione would be the one 
to figure it out. You might be on to something here. Question 10. We 
really need to explore this in more detail. Now to do a little 
Legilmency into Snape's mind. There must be something really *big* 
in that whole scene that we are all missing. Something under all of 
the emotion. I think someone else hear suggested awhile back that 
the emotional part of the whole situation with Harry and Snape was 
meant to throw us off. Hummmm.. So what else happens in the pensive 
scene that might be a big clue to something that Snape doesn't want 
Harry or LV to see??? And ideas folks???

Tonks_op