Sirius and Prank again? Fools Rush in ...

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Irene:

But we do have some information in addition to that.
Dumbledore, who is not exactly seeing the prank
through Snape's eyes, seems to think that James had
saved Snape's life. For that to happen, there had to
be a realistic (or maybe even certain?) life threat.
 
The Marauders (and their fans) can't have it both
ways: if James gets the glory of life-saving, then
Sirius must get the blame of putting that life into
the danger. If there was no danger, there is no life-debt
obligation to James.



Alla:

I don't see why we cannot have it both ways, actually. I cannot 
speak for anybody else, but I am not arguing that Snape's life was 
not in danger when he got to the Shack ( although surprise 
revelations are a possibility, IMO).

What I am arguing is that we don't know how and why Snape went there 
in the first place and as Steve eloquently put it, there are 
scenarious when Snape gets to share a blame for going there in the 
first place.


So, James saves his life, which he partially put in danger 
himself. :-)

Just speculating of course. :-)

But since I consider Prank to be almost complete mystery, I am not 
completely opposed to another speculation - there was another 
incident when James saved Snape's life, which we are not aware of 
yet. I don't remember who raised it.

Although I admit that I don't find it to be very likely.

Oooo, how about that - Snape is a vampire, and Sirius figures it out 
and knows that vampires  can fight werewolfes and decides to 
organise boxing match between them to make Snape part of the 
group. :-)
( Just kidding)


Potioncat:
What we have here is a jigsaw puzzle. The pieces are scattered on 
the table and came from a brown box labeled "The Prank". We're all 
standing around trying to put the blooming thing together. But there 
are several problems...

<SNIP>


Alla:

LOL! That was a very eloquent summary of our discussions. :-)


JMO

Alla.