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

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No: HPFGUIDX 135742

> Christina again:
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> 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)

Alla:

Actually, I submit that we cannot be sure of that. That is what 
Remus thinks. Of course he would not know if Snape figured out who 
he was earlier, I just think that "werewolf question" could  be a 
loaded gun, which may shoot at one point or not.

I also think that JKR hints of Remus liking Lily and not denying 
that Snape  did that too could play into something too.



Christina: 
> 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.
> 


Alla:

Precisely. Don't you think that  the reason Snape would keep quiet 
could be that he himself had something to hide, that is why 
Dumbledore's words coulld have worked?


JMO of course,

Alla.