James and Sirius as Bullies (WAS: student!Snape keeping Lupin's ...)

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No: HPFGUIDX 181206


Carol:
< HUGE SNIP>
Who is more at fault, the kid who offers another kid an illegal drug,
tempting him by saying that he'll love the high it give him, or the
kid who stupidly accepts the offer? Had it not been for the first 
kid,
he would not have been in danger of becoming a drug addict.

Alla:

Except IMO here this second kid was DYING to try that drug for a 
long time if we continue with this analogy by looking into it, 
observing, spying, whatever. So, no I disagree that he would not 
have been in danger, I think he really wanted it.


Carol:
In short, deliberately enticing another person into danger is a worse
offense than foolishly accepting the offer.

Alla:

My opinion that Snape had nobody to blame but himself for going 
there. Sirius was stupid and wanted him to go, sure, but he had no 
way IMO of knowing that Snape would go.

Carol:
Severus could have been
killed or turned into a werewolf; Sirius, had that happened, would
have certainly been expelled and perhaps sent to Azkaban. Remus would
have been imprisoned or put to death, perhaps soul-sucked.

Alla:

That's all true of course.

Carol:
<SNIP>
Just a harmless Prank, and it's all Severus's fault for falling for
it. Sorry, Mike. I can't agree with you on this one. <SNIP>


Alla:

Harmless? Of course not. But is it all Severus' fault for falling 
for it? Oh YES my opinion only that it is his fault and nobody 
else's. Which of course does not exclude Sirius' responsibility for 
whatever he intended to happen to him and for not thinking of what 
may happen to Remus, but IMO it IS Snape's fault for going there 
definitely.

Alla