Harry's detention - James saved Snape's life incident

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No: HPFGUIDX 135741

>>Christina:
>>What did DD really say to keep Snape quiet about Lupin?  "Even
>>though you almost died at the hands of your fellow student, don't
>>tell anyone his buddy is a werewolf or I'll expel you"?  It really
>>doesn't seem reasonable, if you think about it. 
 
>>Alla:
>Hmmmm, in  light of our very limited knowledge of The Prank, I 
>submit that Dumbledore's words to Snape may have sounded as following
> 
> " Since you went in to the Shack, knowing  that Remus was a 
> werewolf, you bear at least partial responsibility for coming there 
> in the first place".

Christina again:

Ack, I suspect I wasn't very clear in my original post.  I meant, what did DD say to Snape to keep him quiet when he *first* learned Lupin was a werewolf?  When Sirius told him to go the whomping willow during the prank, Snape didn't know that Lupin was a werewolf.  It was only when James was pulling him back that he spotted Lupin...

(PoA, US paperback, page 357)
"...Snape glimpsed me though, at the end of the tunnel.  He was
forbidden by Dumbledore to tell anybody, but from that time on he knew what I was..." (end quote)

So Dumbledore must have had a little chat with Young Snape to make
sure he'd keep quiet, but how did he get him to do so?  Snape could
have been killed--I wouldn't imagine he'd be too willing to keep
anyone's secret after that.


Christina

PS- I have no idea why my text is wrapping so oddly, but I'm writing
this one online (as opposed to my AOL account), so I'm hoping it works