Prank and various responsibilities WAS: Re: Marietta

[wynnleaf]

No: HPFGUIDX 169683

> Sherry now:
> It's a proven fact that children, even and especially teenagers, 
do not
> really have a developed sense of danger or the judgment to 
determine such
> things.  

wynnleaf
While it is possible that Sirius didn't think about Snape being 
killed, it doesn't take away from the fact that Sirius would have 
been responsible if Snape *had* been killed.  It may or may not 
affect the amount of blame that could be laid, but it would still 
have been Sirius' action.

Sherry  
 I don't say
> this to excuse Sirius exactly.  We don't really know what happened 
that
> night, and though I am a Sirius fan and not a Snape fan, I will 
reserve
> judgment either way.  However, I can easily imagine that the 
repeated safety
> of running with a werewolf kept all the boys from really 
understanding how
> dangerous it would be for someone else. 

wynnleaf
*Why* would Sirius want to send Snape into the Whomping Willow if he 
thought the only thing that would happen to Snape would be that 
Snape would discover that Lupin was a werewolf??  What possible 
reason could Sirius have *other* than something bad happening to 
Snape?  That's the whole point, isn't it?  Sirius isn't trying to 
edify Snape -- he's trying to do something mean.  So what's the mean 
thing he wants to do?  I suppose you could say that maybe Sirius 
only wanted to scare Snape.  But why would seeing a werewolf scare 
Snape unless the werewolf was actually dangerous?  

I mean, it's not like Sirius sent Snape off to the zoo to view a 
tiger in a cage.  That wouldn't scare anyone, but the most faint of 
heart.   The whole point that would scare Snape at all is seeing a 
truly dangerous creature that is loose and able to harm him.  So 
Sirius had to at the very *least* realize that. In order for his 
prank to have any reason to be inacted, Sirius had to be sending 
Snape off to be thoroughly scared, and by what?  a werewolf in a 
cage?  No, a fully transformed werewolf that is truly dangerous.  
Otherwise, there's no "payoff" to the prank for Sirius.

So, while Sirius may have not thought about Snape actually being 
killed, Sirius *had* to have been aware that the werewolf was really 
dangerous, otherwise his "prank" has no more merit than sending 
Snape off to the zoo to view the "lions and tigers and bears, oh my."

And last, let's remember what adult!Sirius had to say about it -- 
adult Sirius who was *well* aware how dangerous a werewolf could 
be.  Adult!Sirius told Lupin that Snape "deserved" it.

wynnleaf