Snape, Kreacher and the death of sirius

[Cathy Drolet]

No: HPFGUIDX 139420

Finwitch
>>I just wished that Lupin would have recalled the MOON and well - er - 
transfigured Snape into a rat-cage, sent the kids with the rat back to 
the castle and stayed in the shack, but no deal. What was the *matter* 
with Lupin in particular? I understand that Sirius couldn't keep much 
track of time but Remus Lupin forgetting it's full Moon??? I'm inclined 
to see a *possible* blame Snape on that - he may have cast a non-verbal 
obliviate on Lupin, put something on the potion or maybe this was some 
sort of side-effect he never told Lupin about, but, of course, no proof 
on that...

CathyD:
Not being a big fan of werewolf tales, I somehow got it into my head that werewolves in other stories transformed whether they *saw* the moon or not.  However, our dear Lupin only transforms when a cloud shifted to reveal the moon.  I've wondered, since PoA, the necessity of a tunnel, the Shrieking Shack, and the Whomping Willow if all that was needed was to prevent Remus from seeing the moon.  They could have shut him in a broom cupboard for the night instead.

Finwitch
>>Let's not forget the portrait of Bellatrix Kreacher had in the 
kitchen... no need to go to Malfoys when there's that portrait... 
Dumbledore's not the only one who can use portraits as messengers, 
you know...

CathyD:
Wasn't a portrait it was a picture in a silver frame with the glass broken. "...and he had also managed to retreive the silver-framed family photographs that Sirius had thrown away over the summer.  Their glass might be shattered, but still the little black-and-white people inside them peered up at him haughtily, including -- he felt a little jolt in his stomach -- the dark, heavy lidded woman whose trial he had witnessed in Dumbledore's Pensive: Bellatrix Lestrange."



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