Snape again

[zgirnius]

No: HPFGUIDX 146885


> Alla:
> I think that the fact that with ONE book left JKR still promised
> more information about Prank means that she considers it crucial
> enough for the Plot purposes ( and no, I don't buy that the plot
> purpose is to uncover ESE!lupin, so I am working from different
> premise. Shhhhh, Pippin :-))
> 
> Now, WHY would JKR promise more information about Prank if all we
> were to learn is just to reinforce what we already know that Sirius
> lured Snape to the Shack. As many people pointed out she has A LOT
> to deal with in the next book and she still promises more about
> Prank.
> 
> It has to be something quite interesting and something we don't know
> yet, IMO.
> 
> JMO,
> Alla

zgirnius:
Yes, it does. Care to speculate what this might be? I'm honeslty 
curious if anyone has any other ideas. I've got one I discuss below.

One thing that I find very odd about the 'Prank' is Young Snape's 
actions afterwards. He never reveals Lupin's secret (until PoA, a 
good 15 to 20 years later), which I find very mysterious. I would 
have expected him to want his revenge on the Marauders for this 
incident, and what better way than to reveal Lupin's secret to the 
school, and the wider world? It would have been completely awful for 
Lupin, of course, but also, I think, for Sirius, since he would of 
course bear some responsibility for facilitating Snape in his 
learning of the secret. And he could have done it under an oh-so-
righteous cover of concern for the safety of his fellow students, 
yada yada yada.

I can think of a couple reasons why he might not have done this. 
First one is Lily. She was a fellow Prefect of Lupin's, and likely 
had a friendly relationship with him. If as many have speculated she 
also had some sort of relationship with Snape (and I don't 
necessarily mean romantic), she might have talked him out of this for 
Lupin's sake, assuming she meant enough to Snape that he would do 
this for her.

Alternatively, Dumbledore somehow talked him into it. Don't ask me 
how, but I would not underestimate that guy's powers of persuasion 
(especially not after the way he handled Draco at the end of HBP).  
This would establish a previous emotionally significant interaction 
between Snape and Dumbledore on which their later apparent mutual 
trust could be built. It would be a reason for Dumbledore not to 
regard young Death Eater Snape with exactly the same distrust with 
which he once regarded young Tom Riddle.