CHAPDISC: DH33, The Prince's Tale

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 184852

 
> Alla:
> 
> No I do not think that this is a better parallel at all. Malfoy 
> provided a reason for Harry to be there, Harry would not have gone
on  it is own, no? 

Pippin:
You think that five years of persecution does not provide a reason?
Does Sirius have to issue a specific challenge when for five years, he
and his friends have taken every chance they had  to make Snape's life
a misery?

I agree it was not Snape's business to expose werewolves. It was
likewise not Sirius's business to expose snoops, especially when he
was doing it so that he and his friends could continue their illicit
activities.

Bottom line, when Sirius told Snape how to get into the willow, he had
already done something wrong, same as it would be wrong for me to hand
out the keys to a friend's house or their internet log-in. It would be
an unbelievably lame excuse for me to say that I didn't tell anyone to
use them. 

I would be morally responsible for *all* the consequences, as anyone
is when they do something unethical.


> Alla:
> 
> But isn't the making excuses contradicts the not knowing part? I do 
> agree though that she thought she was being supportive.

Pippin:
I didn't think that's what she was making excuses for. I thought she
was excusing Snape's choice of friends, his interest in Dark Arts, his
bad temper and his awkwardness.

Pippin