Lupin and The Marauders (was:Re: Remus Lupin: Good man doing nothing)

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No: HPFGUIDX 149346

Quick silver:
> The problem I have with that is that by and large we've always heard 
> the story from Snape's point of view. The story of the Prank, 
> Snape's Worst memory scene, Snape's rants in PoA, etc. isn't really 
> countered by other views of the Marauders. It'd be like asking Harry 
> to tell us about Malfoy. I'm also suspicious of the "Prank" in 
> general...Sirius acting alone, Snape staying quiet, the fact that 
> Lupin let Sirius off about it. I think there most be more too it 
> then that.

Alla:

I keep bringing it up, but I think it is worth it. There IS more to it 
than we know, JKR said that much and yes, so far story seems 
remarkably one sided, isn't it?

Bu I happen to LOVE those possible hints (and yes, I call them 
POSSIBLE hints simply because I cannot be sure whether they ARE hints 
yet, not because I think that they are weak, IF they are hints.) that 
Snape is not completely innocent party in those events. Don't you love 
the fact that Snape was reading the question about how to recognise 
werewolf in the Pensieve scene and this is the SAME question which he 
gave to Harry class with purpose as we KNOW to make sure kids learned 
who remus is? Hmmm, makes me wonder A LOT whether Snape knew who Remus 
was before he went into Shack.

Of course the fact that we were introduced to Snape creating 
Sectusempra also can lead to some thoughts, etc, etc.

I used to hope that Prank will be explained in light of 
violent "ideological" hatred between Snape and Marauders, probably in 
terms of Marauders taking revenge on Snape for the deeds of Slytherin 
gan, who probably left school by the time of Pensieve scene. I still 
hope that some of this stuff will be there, BUT unfortunately I also 
think that A LOT of reasons for hatred between Snape and Marauders 
will be Saint Lily. :)

It is of course extremely speculative, but JKR pretty much confirmed 
that Lily was a popular girl and that Remus pretty much loved her too. 
If one agrees that Snape loved Lily or as I prefer to say was obsessed 
with her, is it such a stretch that Sirius was a) either in love with 
Lily too ( Gah and gah, I hope not - would be overkill IMO) or somehow 
knew that James was in love with Lily and thought that Snape was not 
worthy of Lily or something.

Gah, I cringe when I type it. At least JKR phrasing that Snape and 
Sirius hatred was mutual gives me hope that it would be something more 
interesting than that.

Alla,

in speculative land and knows it.