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

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No: HPFGUIDX 181178

Carol responds:
<HUGE SNIP>
So making it possible for him to go into a tunnel and encounter a
werewolf with no protection other than his wand and tempting him to 
do
it isn't reckless endangerment? Suppose that I handed you a loaded 
gun
with one bullet in it and dared you to play Russian roulette? 
Wouldn't
I be at fault for endangering you if you were stupid enough to take
the bait? Or would your death, which would not have happened had I 
not
dared you and tempted you to prove that you were immortal, be all 
your
own fault? <SNIP>


Alla:

We do not know that he made it possible for Snape to go, we do not 
know that he tempted Snape to go, we only know that he told Snape 
how to go. So, I would say that if you left the loaded gun on the 
table and told me how to play Russian roulette, you would not be at 
fault at all, for your action anyways.

At least I hope not. I would be the one who picked the gun and 
decided to play after all. I just do not see that what Sirius did 
equals giving the gun to you in your hands even.


Carol:
<SNIP>
I agree with you that it's one teenage boy daring another to show 
he's
not afraid and tempting him with bait he can't refuse. But *Sirius
knows what's in there*--a fully grown werewolf who is not restrained
in any way--and *he knows how to encounter the werewolf safely*, 
which
Severus doesn't


Alla:

Suspects or knows for sure, all the matters of degree is it not? And 
I think he pretty much figured it out – how could one think that 
there is a maybe werewolf in there?

Carol:
So, stupid as Severus was to take the bait, he expected to *see* a
werewolf and prove his theory. He did not expect to be in mortal
peril. As you say, if the Marauders could do it, he could do it. Or 
so
he thought.

Alla:

He knows or suspects that there is a werewolf there and he does not 
expect to be in mortal peril? He is stupid all right then. I would 
not exclude the possibility that he expected to be in mortal peril 
and went anyways. There is that wise crack of Dumbledore that we 
sort too soon after all. Probably Snape wanted to show his 
Gryffindor courage.

Carol, agreeing with Mike for the first half of this post but not
about to let Sirius off the hook for this piece of adolescent 
stupidity


Alla:

I am not either but mostly for Remus' part. If Snape ignored what 
Sirius said, nothing would have happened, I think. I mean, I am sure 
that Sirius wanted to scare Snape oh ever so badly, but I do not see 
that he could even be sure that Snape will go there.

But sure he was reckless idiot in saying it.