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

[pippin_999]

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> Alla:
> 
> Hogwarts stuff maybe? I mean, you think that had he made some effort
 to be not even nicer, I do not know, polite to other teachers, they 
would not have reciprocated?

Pippin:
When do we see him being rude to other teachers, DADA professors
excepted? AFAWK, he had their trust until they found out he'd once
been a Death Eater. In CoS, they're all ready to follow his lead,
McGonagall included.

But he couldn't afford to make himself  popular.  Of course Snape
didn't know he would have to kill Dumbledore, but he was going to 
have to do *something* spectacularly evil-seeming in order to take his
place among the likes of Bella and Lucius as one who has earned the
Dark Lord's favor. It had to be credible that he would do it.
Even so, those who knew him best, Hagrid and Slughorn, couldn't
believe it.

If it's only Hagrid blundering around saying it has to be some kind of
trick done on Dumbledore's orders, no one is going to listen to him.
And Slughorn is smart enough to keep his mouth shut. But if everyone
is saying it, Voldemort is going to start wondering. 

Alla:
> 
> Snape put himself in his mental prison and somebody else put Sirius 
> in a very real prison.
>
Pippin:
This overlooks that Sirius  had his own guilty feelings for suggesting
the plan that got the Potters killed.   He  knew he was innocent of
the crime he'd been sentenced for. But I'm not sure he thought he
deserved to be free. Surely it didn't take him twelve years to lose
enough weight to slip through the bars as a dog.

It was not until Sirius realized that Harry was in danger that he
found the will to free himself. And that is a definite parallel to Snape.

Pippin