Snape / Theo / Peter Peter Death Eater / Snape's Memories

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 184943

> 
> zanooda:
> 
> Why not :-)? There is no door, just a hole in the wall :-). And if
he  was somehow magically restrained inside the Shack, then why does 
> Lupin say that James pulled Snape back with a "great risk to his 
> life" :-)?
> 
Pippin:
You see, even we find it hard to convince ourselves that the werewolf
would be loose. How could it be?  It would  wander down to the
Hogwarts end and kick up the same unholy racket that had the villagers
so terrified. 

Apparently  Snape had to get most of  the way to the shack before the
werewolf came after him. But how could it come after him if it was
locked up?

My personal solution is that the werewolf, being magically driven to
attack humans, normally stayed in the shack because it sensed the
villagers nearby. Its own magic would keep it where the scent of prey
was close. 

We know Lupin's mind became less wolfish when the Animagi were
present, which would allow Sirius and Peter to guide him down the
tunnel and out onto the Hogwarts grounds without commotion. But
otherwise, Lupin would stay put, safely inside the shack which, AFAWK,
no wizard but Voldemort would ever succeed in opening from the
Hogsmeade side. 

It's the sort of thing that would appeal to Dumbledore, allowing for
the wolf to be confined while the human's dignity was respected,
trusting Lupin to remain  willingly in the shack until the
transformation began, and leaving him free to depart when it was over.

Only if a human were so rash as to enter the tunnel during full moon
and travel far enough to attract the werewolf would there be danger.
The willow was supposed to prevent that -- but once Snape (and James)
got close enough to the werewolf, it would come after them. 
 
> > potioncat wrote:
> 
> > And if he could, I don't think the boys (James and Severus) 
> > could have outrun him, unless James used some magic to block 
> > the tunnel as they went.
> 

Pippin:
Unless James, that big Quidditch hero, brought his broom.

Pippin