Rampant Ingratitude, was Re:Lusting After Snape

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 129484

> > Pippin:
> > I think you've missed my point. Learning the truth about Harry's
> > midnight  rambling and suspected  pilfering was not trivial under 
> > the circumstances. There was a Death Eater loose and Harry was 
> > obstructing a criminal investigation, not to mention putting 
> > himself in danger. 
> 
> Erm, what criminal investigation?  And nobody knew about the Death
> Eater, least of all, Snape.

Everyone knew that someone at Hogwarts had it in for Harry, and that 
Dumbledore was trying to find out who it was. The missing boomslang
skin pointed to the use of polyjuice potion--naturally Dumbledore 
and Snape would want to know whether the burglary of Snape's office 
was related to the other goings on at Hogwarts that year. Harry's 
presence on the steps and the theft of the  gillyweed, committed on 
Harry's behalf, confused the issue further. 

Harry would have been in serious trouble if he hadn't caught his foot
in  the trick step. If he'd surprised Crouch!Moody red-handed
stealing boomslang skin from Snape's office, he probably would have 
died right then and there. Snape couldn't know that, but he did know
it was  dangerous for Harry to be wandering around the castle at 
night.

Dumbledore and his allies needed to know whether Harry had in fact
been the burglar, and they also needed to be sure that, if so, he
didn't do it again. Snape's threat to use veritaserum was probably
aimed at bringing the truth to the forefront of Harry's mind, where
it could be detected by legilimency. But it wouldn't hurt for Harry
to know that if he was stealing things from Snape's office, it 
would be regarded seriously. 


> > Pippin:
> > And Snape has been dead right -- about Quirrell and Lockhart, and
 he was probably right about Lupin too. If it's okay for Harry,
whose  brain is channeling Voldemort,  to think for himself, why not
Snape?

Amiable Dorsai:
 
> Lupin?

Pippin:
Lupin admitted that  he was being disloyal to Dumbledore all  year, 
and in  that way, Snape was  right about him. He really should
have told Dumbledore about Sirius and the Map, you know. Even if
he believed Sirius was innocent (which he denies), by refusing
to cooperate in Sirius's capture he left the whole school and the 
village of Hogsmeade at the mercy of the dementors. 

Pippin