Are appearances important to Snape?

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No: HPFGUIDX 142220

Carol wrote:

> It's rashness worthy of James himself to rush out to face both a 
> werewolf and a supposed mass murderer, but it's hardly something he 
> needs to cover up.)


I think, he has something to cover up - 
Since Snape rushed out, because he had spotted Lupin and Sirius on 
the Marauder's map, he should have also noticed Peter Pettigrew 
there, like Lupin did. He might have been in a hurry, concerned with 
the Wolfsbane potion, sweet revenge on Sirius etc., and so not 
registering this fact. But it seems more probably to imply, that he 
either wasn't surprised by this fact, and was eager to keep this 
information unknown for dark reasons. I don't know if those dark 
reasons have to do with Voldemort or with just plain hatred and 
revenge towards Sirius, Lupin, Harry, which blinds hin to the fact 
that something is "ratty" out there. This way or the other, he has 
the fact put in front of him. 

Orna