Understanding Snape

[pippin_999]

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> Steven1965aaa:
> 
> While the teenage Snape was "levicorpused" by James and Sirius and was 
> in grave danger from exposure to werewolf Lupin during the prank, I 
> don't see the adult Snape as even remotely afraid of either werewolf 
> Lupin or Sirius. He badly wants the Order of Merlin credit for 
> capturing Sirius and he is a confident, master-(spell)caster.
>
Pippin:
Sirius was believed to be a uniquely dangerous murderer. The Ministry
sent twenty hit wizards (aurors) to take him into custody. Considering
that in GoF, three wizards are enough to handle a full grown dragon,
Sirius was a significant threat.  Snape, who believes in backup, would 
hardly have gone out to the shack alone if he had believed Sirius was 
there. He says  that he never dreamed that they would be using the 
shack as a hideout. I don't believe he knew that Sirius was there until
he heard Sirius speaking and Lupin called him by name. 

Then he entered the room beneath the invisibility cloak, but remained
hidden listening to Lupin's story, probably with his mind going a mile
a minute trying to figure out what these two Death Eaters were after
and why they hadn't killed Harry and his friends already. He must
have thought, hearing Hermione's skepticism, that the Trio no more
believed Lupin than he did, so their insistence on what they saw
as a fair hearing could have seemed like the effects of a confundus
curse. 

Pippin