Snape in the Shrieking Shack (Was: Are appearances important to Snape?)

[colebiancardi]

No: HPFGUIDX 142299

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "a_svirn" <a_svirn at y...> wrote:
 
> a_svirn:
> 
> Well, as a man who had nearly escaped Azkaban some years previously 
> he would certainly have been wary of the Law. Much as he wanted to 
> kill Sirius, in front of the three or four (if we count Lupin) 
> witnesses he would have needed a "reason" very badly. As for 
> authorities, yes Sirius has been sentenced to the kiss, so he could 
> feed him to a Dementor without any reprisal.
>

I just wanted to ask one thing - Dementors aren't particular about
whom they kiss, so it would seem to me that Snape would be taking a
pretty big chance to give Sirius to the Dementors alone, without
anyone else around to *control* the dementors.  We have read that DD
has warned the students not to try to leave the school grounds,
stating that "It is not in the nature of a dementor to understand
pleading or excuses." p 92 Am Ed Hardback.  Also, when Harry asks
Lupin why the dementors affect him so much, Lupin explains "The
dementors affects you worse than the others because there are horrors
in your past that the others don't have". p. 187   And on page 188,
Lupin states that the dementors are hungry, because DD won't let them
into the school

So, knowing that dementors are picky and can feed on anyone, innocent
or not, and they are hungry, and I am sure Snape has seen some horrors
back in his DE days, why would Snape take the risk to try to feed
Sirius to the dementor all by his lonesone?  

Doesn't make any sense - Snape, as you stated in an earlier post, is
no dimwit, and I doubt he would carry out a feeding to a pack of
dementors in the forest without any other wizard around to help him
keep them back.  Of course, Snape is *supposed* to have a Patronus,
but if he uses it, won't that drive the dementors away from Sirius? 
There are more than one - there are a lot of them and I can imagine
they would swoop down & starting feeding on either of them.  

seens a bit risky to me and Snape isn't the type, outside of his
spying, that seems to risk his life.  Again, this scene reads like a
typical revenge scene, where Snape & Sirius are a each other's
throats, taunting one another and Snape has the upperhand until the
Trio knock him out.

colebiancardi
(and those 5 pages do not translate into one hour of acting.  It is
all dialogue - try reading it outloud - 10 minutes tops)