Prank WAS: Re: CHAPDISC: DH33, The Prince's Tale

[sistermagpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 184916

> > Alla:
> > 
> > Excellent example, Pippin! That is I consider it to be an 
excellent 
> > example of what I consider to be a true set up and what The Prank 
is 
> > not for me, not completely anyways.
> > 
> > So, could you please tell me what is in Prank in your view takes 
> > place of Sirius being tortured in the ministry? What is the 
incentive 
> > to go to the place where person being set up will be ambushed?
> > 
> > Because in Voldemort and Harry situation the incentive is crystal 
> > clear to me - Harry is being told that his Godfather is being 
> > tortured.
> > 
> Montavilla47:

> So, Sirius doesn't *need* to provide Snape with an incentive
> to go down into the tunnel.  Snape's acting a lot like Harry
> in HBP.  He *knows* something is going on.  The person he
> thinks should be taking this idea seriously isn't.  So, he 
> is driven to find positive proof--even if Lily is telling him
> to mind his own beeswax.

Magpie:
I think the point is since Sirius isn't providing him a fake 
incentive or any incentive there's no trick. The trick is supposed to 
be against Snape, that *Snape* is put into danger by going into the 
tunnel. The incentive came from Snape and the incentive was just as 
real as Snape's theory--he though they were concealing a werewolf 
away from the students once a month and they were. That idea came 
from reality. Snape figured it out on his own and wanted proof of it--
protecting Lily might have been one reason in his mind but it's hard 
not to think the "protection" applied to all the Marauders rather 
than Lupin. Their conversation, that I remember, didn't seem to show 
Snape primarily concerned with Lily being hurt. It seemed more like 
he wanted to be proven right and for the Marauders to get in trouble 
because he hated them. 

But regardless the only way Sirius got involved was to give Snape 
information on how to get into the willow. Snape's decision to go 
into the willow was actually pretty well-informed. He knew the 
dangerous creature concealed inside. He didn't know what form or 
protection he would need or would use against him, it seems, but he 
knew he didn't know that.

-m