Are appearances important to Snape?

[hickengruendler]

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> 
> a_svirn:
> 
> I don't know about other posters, but in the chapter 18 "Moony, 
> Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs" Snape entered in the beginning of the 
> chapter when the door cricked: 
> 
> " Lupin broke off. There had been a loud creak behind him. The 
> bedroom door had opened of its own accord. All five of them stared 
> at it. Then Lupin strode toward it and looked out into the landing. 
>  "No one there..." 
>  "This place is haunted!" said Ron. 
>  "It's not," said Lupin, still looking at the door in a puzzled 
> way. "The Shrieking Shack was never haunted.... The screams and 
> howls the villagers used to hear were made by me."
> 
> That as you remember was the very beginning of his story. Which 
> means that Snape stood there and listened the whole tale about 
> animagi. 

Hickengruendler:

True. But it wasn't mentioned in which animals they could turn. Just 
that they were animagi and that Sirius and James were big animals, 
while Peter was a little one. In fact, Harry didn't learn that James 
was a stag until the last chapter of the book. Sirius and Peter 
weren't explained either, because at this time the kids already knew 
that Sirius was a dog and that Sirius and Lupin suspected Peter to be 
Scabbers (a rat). Therefore there was no need to tell them that 
again. The important part of the explanation was how and why it 
happened.

However, Sirius did mention the rat after Snape showed himself. He 
told Snape, that Ron should take his rat to the castle. Therefore I 
guess it was possible for Snape to connect the dots. But the thing 
is, it seems unlikely to me that he would try to, even if he is on 
Dumbledore's side. He was the one, who caught his old enemy. Why 
should he listen to Sirius' (from Snape's point of view) cheap 
excuses?

And about the Dementors: While it is true, that he threatened to 
deliver Sirius and Lupin to them, and that the Trio believed this as 
well; in the end he didn't do it. He was the first to awake after 
everyone broke down and he brought Sirius to the castle, not to the 
Dementors. That doesn't make his behaviour much better, he was still 
positively squeeing after he thought that Sirius would get the kiss, 
but nonetheless he did choose the official route and did not act on 
his words.

Hickengruendler