[HPforGrownups] Prank and various responsibilities WAS: Re: Marietta

[k12listmomma]

No: HPFGUIDX 169682


colebiancardi:

> It was a trick;  Snape told the truth there; Lupin backed him up.

Dana:
Well it is half the truth actually because James and Lupin where not in on
it (I do not know about Peter as it is not mentioned) and Lupin specifically
stated; "of course Snape tried it"  specifically meaning that is was Snape's
own choice to go and pass the willow, something that was specifically
forbidden to go near by the Head Master himself.

Shelley:
This is correct- In Snape's version, Snape blames James, and Harry (by way
of being James's son with many of the same traits) for a trick that ONLY
Sirius pulled on Snape. James rescued his sorry butt, and even many years
later,Snape's still blaming his "rescuer" because he was friends with the
"trick player". These two should be separated, but in Snape's mind, he's
lumping the whole lot of them together instead of seeing them as
individuals, much the same way that he's still treating Harry poorly just
because Snape had a deep hatred for his father.

Dana continued (snipped):

Snape made his own decision and he blamed the marauders for his own
stupidity in stead of taking responsibility for not being able to control
his urges, whatever they might have been. Sirius responsibility do not lie
with what Snape chose to do after hearing the information about how he could
get to Lupin. He was only responsible for Snape being able to get passed the
willow and with that he betrayed a secret he promised to keep just like
Hagrid.

To me it is nothing more nothing less. It was Snape himself that made the
choice to go there that night and it would have been Snape's own fault if he
had gotten more then he could chew, just like Harry got more then he could
chew. Both were saved from their own stupidity by others ...

Shelley again:

I absolutely think it was only Snape's fault. He was told the truth, in how
to get past a tree, but it was his own selfish motives that drove him to ACT
on that information. No one MADE him act- so he alone must bear
responsibility for his actions. (betraying a Headmaster's direct
instructions to avoid the tree.) As mentioned, he could have taken another
route and used his brain to figure out why Lupin was being shuttled to the
tree by the school nurse- it wouldn't have been too hard to put two and two
together to come up with a werewolf answer. I hate the fact that Snape
continually dodges the truth, or manipulates it as he sees fit for his own
personal gain. Yes, I also hate him for wanting to get Sirius's soul sucked
out in that once again, he doesn't want to hear, nor does he really care,
what the real truth is. He's using his hatred of a person to act unjustly,
and in that, it's that trick all over again.