CHAPDISC: DH33, The Prince's Tale

[sistermagpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 184873

> Magpie:
> Going back on my own post here, but you're right Sirius does have
> some responsibility for concealing the Animagi part. He knows that
> Snape is being brave because he must think he'll at least be
> protected by whatever protects MWPP. Whether he imagines the 
werewolf
> is restrained or whatever, Sirius would pretty much assume that
> they'd get in there and Snape would be vulnerable while he, Sirius,
> could just turn into a dog. <SNIP>
> 
> Alla:
> 
> Ok, maybe you could explain to me how that changes anything. I 
mean,  
> if this information should change something , it should change 
> something for Snape's mindset, no? Obviously  even when Sirius 
tells 
> Snape this information he does not have kind thoughts towards 
Snape, 
> at the very least he wants him to be scared by werewolf, yes?
> 
> So, see above, I am just now sure how that changes anything for 
> Snape. I do not see how him knowing that Marauders hang with 
werewolf 
> and live suddenly translates into him thinking that this means 
there 
> will be less danger for him. They are all wizards, so obviously 
> Marauders came up with something, otherwise they would not have 
lived 
> to see the light of the day. Snape does not know what that 
something 
> is and goes there anyway.

Magpie:
I guess to me it's just that from Sirius' pov the animagi secret (and 
it does seem like it's supposed to be unusual for them to be animagi 
so not something Snape would suspect) is an important enough piece of 
information to make a difference. Sirius knows that the only thing 
keeping him safe is something that he is that Snape is not. If Sirius 
can't see any way Snape will deal with the situation

>From Snape's pov he's still taking a risk--I don't put the 
responsibilty entirely back on Sirius due to the animagi thing. Snape 
knows he's going in to see a werewolf, he doesn't know how that's 
going to be safe. But I feel like if I were in Sirius' position I 
would consider the animagi secret to be something that put Snape in 
danger that I was not in, and not telling him about it would make me 
feel responsible. 

It's not, for me, that MWPP going into the willow is the same as 
telling Snape it was safe. Snape may have just told himself that any 
magic they could do he could do--which he would have no way of 
knowing. Or maybe he just thought that he was up to handling a 
werewolf. Or maybe he thought they were trying to scare him and Lupin 
would be chained up. But that's all speculation on his part. They're 
not reponsible for him psyching himself up to think that whatever was 
there he could handle. But if I were Sirius I'd feel my concealing 
the only way I knew to protect myself from the werewolf--something I 
knew Snape didn't have access too--made me responsible if something 
happened to him. It would feel like tricking him to me.

-m