Still the Prank

[Ceridwen]

No: HPFGUIDX 184986

Ceridwen wrote in
> <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/184972>:
> 
> << If Snape didn't know the tunnel led to the shack, he may not have
> thought the other three Marauders went through to be with Remus, just
> to get out of the school. Remus would have told them how to get
> through so they could have some fun against the rules, since they were
> his friends. Sirius doesn't say Snape knew there was a werewolf in a
> locked building on the other side, to my recollection (I may be
> wrong), only that Snape suspected Remus was a werewolf and Sirius told
> him how to get into the tunnel. Something unspoken might be that yes,
> Snape thought Remus was a werewolf. Snape also thought, but did not
> necessarily connect the two incidents, that the Marauders were going
> through the tunnel for some illicit fun of their own. The possibility,
> to me, is that Snape thought there was a field or other open space -
> the Great Outdoors - at the other end of the tunnel and Remus was
> taken somewhere nearby while the Marauders headed for Hogsmeade. >>

Catlady:
> Oh, dear, a completely new thought.

Ceridwen:
I wish I could take the credit for this, but I can't.  The credit goes
to Pippin in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/184962
I am going to think about it for a while.  It's a new direction from
the one we usually assume, and it would change the discussion
significantly, in my opinion.  Thanks, Pippin!

Ceridwen.