Sirius and Prank again? Fools Rush in where Wisemen Fear to Go

[M.Clifford]

No: HPFGUIDX 129895


> a_svirn wrote:
> > Was it a prank or a murder attempt? Depends of
> > your idea of fun, I suppose.
> 
> Valky replied:
> 
> It is Snape that makes the implication that the prank was purely an
> exercise in fun, Sirius doesn't ever actually reinforce this 
> directly, and mores the point Sirius even implies that he feels it 
> was a rash and foolish mistake, not fun.<<
> 
> Rebecca: (hello Valky!)
> I am wondering what makes you think that Sirius thinks it was a rash 
> or foolish mistake. He certainly seemed to imply that about what 
> Harry saw in the pensieve incident, but his reaction to the prank  
> (at least in the shrieking shack, when admittably he's not thinking 
> quite  straight) is that he hasn't changed his mind about it.
> 
> ' "He has his reasons... you see, Sirius here played a trick on him 
> which nearly killed him, a trick which involved me --"
> Black made a derisive noise.
> "It served him right," he sneered. "Sneaking around, trying to find 
> out what we were up to... hoping he could get us expelled...." '
> [snip]
> ' "Sirius thought it would be -- er -- amusing, to tell Snape all he 
> had to do was prod the knot on the tree trunk with a long stick, and 
> he'd be able to get in after me." '
> 

Valky:
Oops Mea Culpa, I was confusing the two issues. 

The derisive noise and Lupins statement prove me dead wrong about that
one, sorry a_svirn.

Now I have still as of always believed that the prank was not quite
what Snape makes it out to be in the shrieking shack, but I guess its
purely academic now if I give the reason for it, since I bodged my
first attempt so awfully.
Just in case someone does still want to take my POV seriously after
I've coated my face in egg like this, I'll just explain that I read
the derisive noise Sirius makes as something other than a snicker at
the original amusement that was the prank. OTOH my foot is still
officially in my mouth from last post so I had better shut it. LOL ;P
Thanks Hunter.

Valky