Severus and the DADA exam /James

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 124001



> 
> Hannah:  I would definitely agree there is more to that pensieve 
> scene than meets the eye.  Something we're overlooking.  But what?  
> Here's one idea I came up with a while back (and probably others 
> have too).  What is Snape doing in that scene, that we know of, 
> before he gets attacked?  Reading over his past exam paper.  So 
> Snape, looking through the questions, suddenly realises he turned 
> over two pages at once and has missed off half the questions. 

Finwitch:

Hmm-mm. It's a possibility. BUT:

There WAS a question about recognising a werewolf.

1)Now, either Snape DID know (which certainly puts his being in the 
shrieking shack something like a suicide attempt, with a goal to get 
Lupin expelled/killed or whatever.) This would reveal something about 
Snape - that he has this habit of doing what he can to get others 
into trouble (a form of bullying not easily recognised).

OR--

2)he's ashamed for NOT figuring it out about Lupin. Good heavens, 
look at Sirius' comment: 'I'm bored. Wish it were *full moon*'.
They as good as TOLD him now, even if Sirius was attempting to make 
him think Sirius was the werewolf.

And I think that, with that competition-thing going on, James saving 
Severus' life..

Entirely possible that James & Sirius, after rescuing Snape, take him 
to Dumbledore's office and told all about it. (While Severus is kept 
under SILENCIO so he can't explain.) I also suspect that well - James 
*liked* detentions. So much he confessed every time he broke the 
rules - just so he got the school record. 

I imagine a scene...

James&Sirius take Severus to Dumbledore's office in a manner of 
police officers walking a prisoner. They, though not being even 
prefects, get trough Dumbledore's Gargoyle as easily as any teacher 
would.

Then, James starts talking about a confession - about being out of 
bounds.

'Of course, I could have chosen not to break rules - but that would 
have been murder. Severus Snape was about to meet a Gryffindor 
Prefect, who was, due to his disease, unable to choose anything else 
but kill this intruder on his privacy. I, however, had the option to 
take this student away, to make that choice so I did'.

And all about saving Snape.
"I'm not going to compete with Sirius. We're the best students now, 
and nothing you do, Severus Snape, will ever change that, because you 
owe your life to me".

And all in all, this provided James the sort of moral test he'd been 
yearning for, and so he was now able to stop defying rules and 
concentrate on courting Lily.

Finwitch