Snape in Shrieking Shack WAS: Re: Are appearances important to Snape?

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 142231

> 
> Hickengruendler:
<SNIP>.
> 
> 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?


Alla:

But you see, to me , if Snape has ANY reason to suspect that Peter IS 
alive and IS  Wormtail and WAS the one who betrayed Potters, then 
Snape behaviour (to me only of course) loses any kind of 
justification and becomes not just revenge-ridden, which Snape may 
feel that he is entitled to, but absolutely despicable.

If Snape honestly thinks that Sirius is a murderer and that Peter is 
dead, I would still dislike that Snape refuses to listen to any 
reason and went crazy, but I may understand it.

If he figures out that Peter is alive, then really, no matter what 
grudges , deserved or not, Snape holds against Sirius, I feel rather 
strong agreement with Lupin's ( schoolboy grudge is not worth putting 
innocent man back in prison).

To sum up - Snape may not feel that he SHOULD listen to Sirius "cheap 
excuses", but if Snape "connects the dots", and realises that those 
excuses may be true, and he considers himself a decent person, he 
really really should, IMO.

And of course, IF Snape connected the dots ( he is a smart guy, our 
Severus :-)), he should not have try to silence Harry and Hermione 
later in hospital wing, IMO.


> > a_svirn:
> > I am sincerely puzzled how you can call a DE "rule-follower"? 
<SNIP>
Colebiancardi: 
> An ex-DE, please - thank you very much.  <SNIP>

Alla:

Just a quick comment, we do NOT know for sure that Snape is an ex-DE, 
so I personally would at most call him " maybe ex-DE", because I 
think that at the end of HBP it is a reasonable interpretation  that 
Snape either was always faithful to his former master or made a 
choice to be faithful to him now.


JMO,

Alla