CHAPDISC: DH33, The Prince's Tale

[jkoney65]

No: HPFGUIDX 184864

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Carol" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:
>
> Alla wrote:
> > 
> > Okay. For my part, I hold Sirius responsible for unethical, 
stupid, 
> > irresponsible behavior towards Remus. I am sure he wanted Snape 
> > getting a werewolf scare, however, when Snape is being portrayed 
as 
> > the victim of entrapment or trickery, I disagree with that. I do 
not 
> > see how Sirius entrapped or tricked him.
> > 
> Carol responds:
> 
> I certainly agree that his behavior was "unethical, stupid, [and]
> irresponsible toward Remus. It was pretty stupid with regard to
> himself as well since he'd have been expelled at the least if 
Severus
> had been bitten.
> 
> And I concede that Severus is partially responsible for taking the
> bait. But what I think you're not accounting for is that Severus
> didn't know that MWPP were Animagi and could face the werewolf 
without
> harm. Sirius withheld that key piece of information, leaving Severus
> to think that if MWPP could safely face the werewolf, so could he.
> 
> So *because* he knew that Severus could be bitten or killed and 
didn't
> tell him that the werewolf he wanted to see was not restrained in 
any
> way and *could kill him or turn him into a werewold*, Sirius *is*
> responsible for any consequences.
> 

jkoney
If Snape is as intelligent as some people believe he had to know what 
facing a werewolf was all about. They cover it in third year. His 
theory is that Lupin is a werewolf and he's going to go out and 
uncover it, even though it appears that the staff knows about this.

At this point it is no one's fault but Snape's if he decides to go 
investigate the alleged werewolf. He knows what he believes but still 
goes looking. He can't expect to find it chained up. Anyone with a 
bit of common sense is going to assume that if you go looking for 
something that you are sure is there, then it is going to be there. 
If so, you have to take your own precautions (like having a teacher 
come with you) otherwise you are going to face the consequences of 
your actions(which he still wasn't able to do years later). He's just 
lucky that James saved him.