My own take on the Prank

[sistermagpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 152674

Joe: 
>   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.

Magpie:
I agree Draco in PS/SS (where he's spying on the Trio etc.) does 
remind me of what we hear of Snape from Sirius and with the Prank.  
It certainly sounds like he was trying to get them in trouble.  
Though that also brings up a whole host of other things to think 
about for me, because I don't think Draco does follow them just so 
he can tell McGonagall.  He only tells McGonagall when he gets 
caught himself.  Draco throughout PS/SS, to me, seems to want far 
more to be in on it than he does to be telling on it.  In Snape's 
case we're talking much later in his school career when the fight 
had escalated, but it does make me wonder just how his fight with 
James started, if there was any perceived rejection on Snape's 
part.  It may be very different underneath the surface similarities, 
though, because all four boys in question are very different people.

What's actually a bit funny that I just thought of is that, you 
know, what about Dumbledore getting in trouble?  Little Snape could 
have caused a whole lot of trouble back then, similar to the way his 
telling on Lupin in PoA gets him fired.  Dumbledore's snuck a 
werewolf into the school?  One who, it might come out, has in fact 
been roaming the countryside with three other students every full 
moon?  However did Dumbledore get Snape to keep the secret?  
Especially in a way that MWPP never seemed to appreciate?

-m