Dark Magic (ignoring Dumbledore's age/ Goblin's view on property)

[Ceridwen]

No: HPFGUIDX 176581

Alla:
> But even if I were to go with hexes and jinxes, I still see a major
differences between using them and what supposedly Snape's pals did
to Mary for example. Lily sounded too horrified instead of amused
for me.
*(snip)*
...I definitely believe Lily. 

Ceridwen:
I can't quite believe Lily in The Prince's Tale about the difference 
between the Prank and whatever it was Mulciber (not Snape) did to 
Mary, because Lily didn't have all the facts about the Prank.  James 
saved Severus from "whatever's down there" - she didn't know it was a 
werewolf, that James, Sirius and Peter all knew that, and that the 
werewolf was Remus.  She did know what Mulciber did to Mary.  She 
can't compare the two incidents adequately without all the info.  But 
Severus could.  He knew what happened with Mary, since Mulciber was 
his friend, and Lily talks as if this is common knowledge.

He also knows what happened to him in the tunnel, what he saw, and 
what James saved him from.  He switches straight from Mary to the 
Prank, because the two are associated in his mind.  He can't tell 
Lily about Remus, and James, Sirius, Peter and Remus probably 
wouldn't (until she married James, sort of like a witch or wizard 
keeping the magic out of a relationship until marriage to keep the 
secret).  Severus probably had his theory beforehand, but he can't 
say that it's been confirmed.  If Lily had known that a) Sirius sent 
Severus down the tunnel knowing there was a werewolf at the other end 
and b) there was a werewolf at the other end, would she have seen a 
difference between whatever Mulciber did to Mary and what Sirius 
tried to do to Severus?

Ceridwen.