Room for Debate (ws Re: J.K. Rowling Comments )

[zgirnius]

No: HPFGUIDX 164733

Carol:
> but it isn't clear whether Snape recognizes the names or only 
> suspects that Lupin was one of them based on the insults (four 
> people who clearly know who Snape is insulting him, and one of them 
> suspiciously named Moony?) 

Ronin:
> It seems that she's already alluded to this in the past books. 
> Everyone knows who Wormtail is and Lupin is obvious. In OotP, Harry 
> uses Padfoot as code when telling Snape that Sirius is in trouble 
> and Snape knows what he's talking about. Dumbledore mentions this 
> at the end, when they've returned from the MoM.

zgirnius:
Also in OotP, Sirius addressed James as 'Prongs' in front of Snape and 
Lily, in the memory Harry sees in Snape's Pensieve. And the Marauders 
use their nicknames freely leaving the exam. I don't think they were at 
all a secret and Snape likely knew them all, if not their meanings, 
other than Lupin's, which he did find out.