Details of the "Prank" (WAS Re: LV's bigger plan (was:Fawkes possible absence))

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 166343

> > Alla:
> > And do you realise the implications of your speculation that 
Snape 
> > showed up before Marauders?
> > 
> > That can mean to me another potential support in favor of Snape 
> > figuring out **before** hand that Remus was a werewolf and going 
in 
> > for the kill, thus also somehow managing to keep James occupied 
> > somehow.
> 
> zgirnius:
> By sixth year, it would seem to me that if Snape wanted to kill 
> Lupin, he could have. Since Lupin is alive, I conclude this was 
not 
> Snape's intention. 
<SNIP>

Alla:

And I reserve my judgment. I do not think Snape would have 
necessarily gotten all he wanted :)

See those essays do keep bugging me, they truly honestly do.


Zgirnius:
To be close enough to be in danger, he was close 
> enough to cast Sectumsempra, seems to me. (Regardless of whether 
he 
> already knew/used the spell in SWM, by sixth year, I think he knew 
> it - it is in the 6th year text.) Also, he has no use for Lupin as 
an 
> adult, but seems rather more intense about both James and Sirius. 
He 
> does not seem to care enough for Lupin for Lupin to ne the 
potential 
> victim of an erstwhile murder attempt.

Alla:

Oh, but the less intensity of his hatred for Lupin may have nothing 
to do with it. I doubt that he wanted to kill Lupin ( if he did) 
because he hated him per se that much. I believe that Snape may have 
wanted to kill a **Dark creature** ( don't ask me how werewolf mind 
works?) not human being called Remus Lupin and maybe to show himself 
a great expert of Dark Arts.

Am speculating obviously, wildly, but those essays, they do bug me.

Zgirnius:
> Actually, the circumstance of the Marauders being absent could 
also 
> support the idea that Sirius did set it up to get Snape. He might 
> pick a night they were not going to be there, or might have 
delayed 
> his friends, to such an end. And then either started having second 
> thoughts, or decided to amuse his pals with the story of his plan.

Alla:

Sure, it could have been.


Zgirnius: 
> However, I tend to think what happened is what we have heard so 
far: 
> Snape was an idiot to follow Sirius's suggestion, Sirius was a 
bigger 
> idiot to make it, and James saved the day.

Alla:

Yes, likely but too many questions for me, you know? And of course 
the one of them is that Snape should have been more than an idiot to 
just go where his sworn enemy tells him to.

Zgirnius: 
> Though the details of why Snape and Sirius were inspired to such 
> heights of idiocy would certainly make fascinating reading.
>

Alla:

Agreed :)

Pretty please JKR.