My own take on the Prank

[Joe Goodwin]

No: HPFGUIDX 152626

ericoppen <oppen at mycns.net> wrote:    
And we know Snape's not really rational on the subject of Sirius 
Black. For all we know, Black and Potter, Sr. _were_ punished, but 
I think anything short of being shot at dawn by a firing squad 
wouldn't have made Snape happy. I should also point out that one 
reason DD may not have come down as hard on the Marauders as Snape 
would have wanted was because Snape, whatever his motivations, _was_ 
miles out of line, sneaking into the Shrieking Shack. 
   

  Joe: Yeah people always seen to forget that if the little toerag 
hadn't been sticking his nose into other people's affairs in the 
first place he couldn't have gotten hurt at all.
   
  Did Sirius go too far? Of course he did. That said, he couldn't 
have done it if Snape hadn't already shown that he spying on them 
because he was an ***hat.
   
  I think that Snape is still torqued about everything involved in 
that night. He's mad because Sirius read him so well and got him to 
put his own neck in the noose so to speak. He's also mad that James 
didn't have anything to do with his being in danger and that James 
was the one who saved him.
   
  In fact we see the scene again in some ways when Draco follows 
Harry, Ron and Hermione to Hagrid's hut just so he can tell 
McGonagall.
   
  Joe