student!Snape keeping Lupin's secret (was Re: Sirius as a dog)

[montavilla47]

No: HPFGUIDX 181184

> Magpie:
> But we've got lots of references to the Marauders being friends and 
> targetting Snape--hell, I always thought that was the way it worked 
> starting in PoA when the MWPP gang up on Snape in map form. As you've 
> mentioned, the Marauders themselves talk about Sirius and James going 
> after Snape together, Lupin regrets not stopping the two of them. We 
> see it in SWM. Snape furiously refers to them going after him 4 on 1 
> (it probably seemed that way to Snape even when Sirius and James were 
> the ones doing the hexing). He seems to have some true actual pain 
> about the unfairness of that part. The one time we see somebody on 
> Snape's side it's Lily.

Montavilla47:

You're reminding me of something I keep forgetting to mention.

The tactical advantage that the Marauders had on Snape wasn't
only that they outnumbered him (assuming that that didn't have
his own gang hidden somewhere).  They also had two other 
advantages.  

They had a magical map that showed the location of every 
person in Hogwarts, which means that they could track his movements
and know exactly where he was at any time and whether or not he
was alone.

They has an invisibility cloak.  

I'm surprised Snape made through school at all.