Prank question - Lupin wanted Snape DEAD?

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 154198

> Pippin:
>   "As I've said many times, Lupin is the one Marauder with a good
> enough motive to want Snape dead. Once you realize that James
> and Sirius weren't going to want to stop running with the werewolf
> just because Snape had spied out Lupin's hiding place, you can
> see how precarious Lupin's position had become. The added 
> risk would only have made it more fun for Sirius and James. But
> Lupin knew what would happen to his animagi friends if they 
> were caught with him. He had to act."
> 
Wolf Xavier:   
>   I MAY be misunderstanding you.  If so, please forgive me.  
>   Given that Lupin's situation is known (not by the public at large, 
but in the Ministry records and by the Headmaster at Hogwarts), 
getting caught would really just mean that public outcry would force
 Lupin into some sort of home-school or alternative education 
program (if such exists).

Pippin:
I don't think it does. Otherwise Hagrid could have continued his
magical education after he'd been expelled. 

Wolf Xavier
>   AND, it's not like being an unregistered animagus would
 mean being chucked into Azkaban or even immediate 
expulsion at thier age (I wouldn't THINK, given the other 
shenanigans that go on at that school). 
<snip>

Pippin:
If Dumbledore had caught them, maybe so.  But Sirius and
James were taking Lupin into Hogsmeade, where they had many
close calls. If they'd been caught there, it would be the Ministry, not 
Dumbledore, who decided what to do with them. With Voldemort on the
rise and Fenrir on the loose, they could well have been convicted of 
every unsolved werewolf attack on the books.

Pippin