Snape again

[quick_silver71]

No: HPFGUIDX 146905

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "zgirnius" <zgirnius at y...> 
wrote:
> 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.

It could be the Snape wasn't so innocent as he proclaims in the 
Prank incident and he therefore didn't want to rock the boat to much 
with regards to it. Indeed it could be that if Lupin and Sirius were 
kicked out then they were going to take Snape with them.

Or it could be Snape's pride/ego...the man insists that James was 
involved in the Prank...almost as if he can't wrap his head around 
the idea that he was...to use some slang..."owned" by Sirius Black. 
Maybe Snape didn't want it to get out that Sirius Black, acting 
alone apparently, utterly tricked Snape (odd...Snape is supposed to 
be the logical wizard of the two).

Quick_Silver