Snape again

[Claudia]

No: HPFGUIDX 146900

> zgirnius:
> Yes, it does. Care to speculate what this might be? 


Yes, here, me!


> zgirnius:
> 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.

Claudia here:
If somebody talked him out of it, than it must have been Dumbledore 
(IMO).

Now I'm purely speculating here:
What if DD promised him that nothing the like would happen again and 
that he would see to it that they (the Marauders) learnt to be more 
responsible? A boy like Snape (especially assuming his abusive 
childhood) would most likely think DD was to inflict some heavy 
punishment on the boys. Instead DD meant to achieve this by making 
James Head Boy, hoping this would evoke his inherent better 
qualities. And also hoping that James would have more control over 
Sirius than Remus had (who was already prefect by that time.) From 
what we know how James (and Sirius) turned out in the end, DD's 
action had the desired effect.
But it was a terrible blow on Snape. He probably didn't turn in Lupin 
then because his anger had turned towards DD and his handling of 
the "prank".

The starting point of DD's attitude towards the redeeming Snape would 
in this case actually be guilt, for fearing that his actions had 
partly driven Snape into Voldemort's arms.

Claudia