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

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 181164


> 
> Montavilla47:
> 
> Unless they have some definite project, they ought to be where all
> the other fifth-year students are:  Near the lake, enjoying their 
> break between the morning and afternoon test. (As I recall, they
> take the essay portion in the morning in Harry's fifth year, and 
> the practical test in the afternoon.)

Pippin:
It could be that Mulciber and Avery are younger than Snape. Lily
does call them his "precious little Death Eater friends." Gifted
children often find it easier to make friends who are older or younger
than themselves. Lily might have been the only friend Snape had
in his year. She's certainly the only one he pays attention to in the
Sorting. 

I would take Snape's words about never being attacked unless it was
four on one with a grain of salt, like Hagrid's claim that no wizards
ever went bad unless they were in Slytherin. But in both cases it
could be that in the speaker's mind certain prominent instances 
made them forgetful of  the contrary examples. 

Pippin