Headmaster for a day (was Prank WAS :Re: CHAPDISC: DH33, The Princ

[sistermagpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 184954

> Alla:
> > <snip> But no matter what he may have wanted to happen to Snape 
and
> no matter what secrets he gave to Snape, Snape still went and Sirius
> as far as I am concerned, did not trick him to go, did not plan to
> kill him, he foolishly gave him an information that he would not
> supposed to. <snip>
> 
> Carol responds:
> 
> He didn't trick him into going, true, but he did *entice* him. (It's
> rather like the Weasley Twins enticing Dudley with the Ton-Tongue
> Toffee, which they knew Dudley would eat. Otherwise, where's the
> "fun"? 

Magpie:
The twins enticed Dudley, but Sirius did not, imo, entice Snape since 
Snape needed no enticing. The sweet was left on the floor and 
introduced into the situation by the twins, and Dudley did not know 
what it was. Snape was enticed by the situation in general and knew 
there was a werewolf. This is more like if Dudley said, "I hear you 
have sweets that make your tongue swell up the size of a killer 
whale. I want to try one of those." He would of course be assuming 
that the experience wouldn't be upsetting. And the twins said, "Okay, 
here's one we made." 

It's still wrong of the twins to take advantage of Dudley's naivite 
and not tell him that it will probably be far worse for him as a 
Muggle than it would be for a Wizard. But what the Twins actually did 
in that scene is what we *thought* Sirius did before, where Snape's 
ignorance approached Dudley's and Sirius seemed to be actively 
deceiving and enticing Snape instead of just passively letting him do 
something he had good reason to think he would regret no matter how 
much he claimed to want it now. (And even helping him do it.) Still 
being a jerk, but it's no longer a trick.

-m