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

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> Betsy Hp:
> Ahh, but we're talking about the WW here.   You know, the place 
that 
> sent Sirius to Azkaban without fussing much about a trial?  I 
> somehow think that if Snape showed up with Sirius's corpse in his 
> clutches Fudge would give out medals first and ask questions... 
> well, never. <g> 

Alla:

I don't think that it would be totally up to Fudge to sidestep the 
inquiry about unauthorized use of Unforgivable, I also have a 
feeling that Fudge would jump to the chance to, and I don't know NOT 
to give Snape a medal.

Remember how he treats Snape after Snape's little outburst?

"Fellow seems quite unbalanced," said Fudge, staring after him. "I'd 
watch out for him, if I were you, Dumbledore" - PoA, p.420, 
paperback.

Nope, I don't think that Snape would have gotten no questions if he 
showed up with dead Sirius. Just my feeling based on how I read 
Fudge. I think he would be VERY happy to put the man with DE past to 
Azkaban. JMO, of course.



> Betsy Hp:
> Oh, I'm sure Snape enjoyed Sirius's eyes filling with fear when he 
> mentioned the Dementors.  But I honestly doubt that his entire 
goal 
> was making Sirius squirm.  (Sirius turned out to be one of the 
> easier Marauders for Snape to get over, I think.  Too much emotion 
> on display for Snape to play with.)

Alla:

No, it was only half of his goal. :-) Other half could have been to 
silence Remus forever. :) Then there is a possibility that a_svirn 
raises that Snape may have knew about Peter all along, so then his 
whole goal would be covering his tracks. I love this one of course. 
Not sure if this would turn out to be true, since I think that all 
Snape wanted was revenge, but would be fun if it was.



>> Betsy Hp:
> Or sure.  Yes, it's reasonable.  Though, I do think it makes more 
> sense for Voldemort to keep such a well-placed spy a secret known 
> only to him.  But if he did share that information with a few 
Death 
> Eaters it would make sense that Snape was not among them.

Alla:

As I said, I do not share the theory that Voldemort has much common 
sense at all. To me it makes perfect sense to imagine that Voldemort 
may have bragged to Snape as one of his most trusted followers how 
he managed to get rid of Potters with the help of the little rat, 
named Wormtail. Just as he bragged to other DE how easily he would 
kill Harry during Graveyeard. but this is just me speculating.



> > >>Alla:
> > It can also suggest that Snape likes his revenge served with the
> > audience around and praising him as hero in the meantime, at 
least
> > IMO.
> 
> Betsy Hp:
> If Snape showed up with Sirius's body he'd have had the applause 
and 
> the praise.  And he'd have had the joy of killing Sirius himself.


Alla:

Hmmm, he may have gotten the praise OR instead of the praise he may 
have gotten investigation into events of that night. And even though 
you said in the part where I snipped that Snape knows how to 
cast "Obliviate!" which I am sure he does, I disagree that because 
of that he would have avoided investigation all together. You know, 
Aurors may have wanted to know the circumstances of Black death, if 
nothing else. Dumbledore may have wanted to know how exactly kids 
ended up spending night with Snape of all people and not remembering 
anything about that night at that.

And all what it takes is to take Snape wand and check it for curses. 
I mean, he could have do wandless magic of course, but since he was 
using his wand quite often in the Shack, I don't think he would have 
done that.

What I am trying to say is that Snape showing up with Sirius body 
would not have given him ONLY praise, it could have brought troubles 
also ( or not of course) But I don't think Snape wanted to take this 
chance, I think he wanted to be sure that Sirius will be kissed and 
he (Snape) would be a hero. Not the subject of inquiries and maybe 
Hero, but just Hero, nothing else and Temporarily Alive! Sirius 
gives Snape more chances to be the Hero, IMO.

JMO,

Alla