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

[pippin_999]

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> zanooda:
> 
> Maybe you are right, although I imagined that the werewolf tried to
get out through the tunnel at first, but gave it up after a few
unpleasant experiences with the Willow :-). 

Pippin:
Heheh. JKR's put us in exactly Snape's position. We can infer that 
wherever the werewolf goes, it can't stay near the tunnel entrance
because, among other things, people would hear it screaming, so
something must keep it away. 

And it's driving us crazy not to know what it is. If JKR wanted us to
understand how maddening it was for Snape not to know what was going
on, she succeeded. <g>. 

I probably would have the sense not to go into the tunnel to find out.
But I'm not a teenage boy. And the teenage boy in question doesn't
know that the tunnel leads to a  house with no exits.

 Someone remind me, just how can we conclude that knowing a werewolf
uses the tunnel to exit the grounds before he transforms translates
into knowing said tunnel is a deathtrap?  

Why should Snape even suspect that? Sure, Sirius was a bully and a
troublemaker. He hexed people and called them names -- but not even
Snape had a reason to think he was a killer -- not yet.

I used to surmise that Snape must have been forced to enter the
tunnel because otherwise he ought to have turned back as soon as he
heard the werewolf screaming. But as Alla reminds us,  Snape was a
DADA expert. He would know that a screaming werewolf is a captive
werewolf. Obviously it can't get out, or it wouldn't be screaming. It
would be hunting you.

It would look like the Marauders had been playing the same game with
the werewolf that people used to play with the tree, trying to see how
close they could get to it. Snape might as well go on  and have a
look, since he'd come so far. 

And then it all went quiet...

Pippin