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

[littleleahstill]

No: HPFGUIDX 181153

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214" 
<dumbledore11214 at ...> wrote:
> 
> Alla:

(snipped)


> Nobody told us at the end of seven books that Marauders stole 
> Snape's precious book, so I take it that they did not steal 
anything 
> and Snape spread it out himself or with the help of his Slytherin 
> friends.

Leah:  Sorry, I can't see what point you're making here. Whether or 
not the book was stolen has got nothing to do with whether Snape was 
regularly bullied by the Marauders.

(snipped)
> Alla:
> 
> Um, that can be the reaction of people who are affraid that Snape 
> will get up and start hexing them with Sectusemptra left and 
right, 
> no?
> 
> Or that Malfoy and Co shows up and do the same thing with Snape.

Leah:
If Snape had used Sectumsempra left right and centre he would have 
been in very serious trouble- see McGonagall's reaction to Harry's 
use in 
HBP. Wormtail is waiting for James and Sirius to start on 
Snape 'with avid anticipation', and if Wormtail is not worried about 
Snape hexing everyone around, it's hard to think anyone else would 
be.  We 
only hear about apprehension from the crowd once and that could be 
as well directed at James and Sirius as at Snape. We get four 
mentions of the crowd laughing, being entertained and cheering - 
doesn't sound as if they lived in terror of Snape and his vengeance.

Nobody from Slytherin turns up to rescue Snape, neither do the 
Marauders seem in anyway concerned that they might. They're not 
watching their backs, James takes time out to have his so-delightful 
conversation with Lily.  Malfoy certainly couldn't turn up.  His age 
in OOTP is given as 41 so he's 4 to 5 years older than Snape and he
would already have left Hogwarts.    

Leah     

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