Chapter Discussion: Prisoner of Azkaban Ch 19: The Servant of Lord Voldemort

[Joey Smiley]

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> Joey:
> >
> > You are right about Snape's viewpoint. I can understand Snape's refusal to trust Sirius - Sirius never showed any good side of his to Snape. But then Snape also fails to consider another point: just the way DD trusts him for a major reason known only to the two of them, DD may have strong reasons to trust Lupin as well - DD did silence Snape when he tried to suggest that Lupin must have let Black in the castle. We see that only James, Sirius, Peter enjoy what they do to Snape. While Lupin did not try to stop them [not a great quality, I admit], he at least never encouraged or enjoyed what they did. So, Snape could have at least heard Lupin's account of the story?
> 
> Bart:
> But note that DD, in this case, was wrong. In spite of the fact that 
> Lupin knew that Sirius was an unregistered animagus, and believed Sirius 
> to be guilty, he still didn't tell DD about his canine tendencies. And 
> DD clearly believed Sirius to be guilty (largely because Sirius believed 
> himself to be guilty, just not of what he was charged).

Joey:

Oh yes, he was wrong. :-) Snape didn't know that yet though. I was only saying that Snape could have considered the possibility that if DD can trust him for a specific reason then he could be doing the same to Lupin too i.e. have a private reason between him and Lupin that is not known to anyone else. :-)