baiting the bear Re: Snape's Worst (and Best!) OoP Moment?

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> Magda: 
>> > What Snape wants - and is getting - in this scene is
> > simply...payback.  He's taunting Sirius and getting him riled up
> > because he knows he can turn the tables now and there's jack-all
> > Sirius can do about it.  He's enjoying having the control.

Potioncat:
Neither one of them come out very well in that scene, do they? I wanted 
to knock their heads together. Although this is the first time we 
readers see Black and Snape interacting, they must have had 
conversations before. After all, Snape was reporting regularly over the 
summer and it's Christmas time now. Granted, it's probably the first 
time they've been forced to be alone.

Remember the Marauders' Map scene between Snape and Lupin? That 
conversation reads very differently now than it did when we only had 
PoA. I get the sense that there something going on at Grimmauld Place 
that we don't quite understand...yet. 

 Alla:
> 
> I am just wondering from how many people seeking payback from Snape 
> as former member of Voldie gang Dumbledore shielded Snape when he got 
> him a safe haven at Hogwarts.

Potioncat:
Not many. But I'm basing that on suspect intelligence. Black had no 
idea that Snape had been a Death Eater. So it doesn't seem to be 
anything he was generally suspected of.