Chapter Discussion: Prisoner of Azkaban Ch 18: Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Pron

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.> Carol responds:
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> It's rather like pointing to a gun and telling a kid you hate that the gun has one bullet in it, knowing that the kid will take the implied dare. <SNIP since this is the main point I  disagree with>


Alla:

Not in my opinion it is not, because saying that Sirius *knew* that kid will take the implied dare, again takes Snape's choice away from him. How  exactly did Sirius know that? He could have suspected that Snape will go, sure, but still Snape and only Snape decided to go and it is as far as I know canon fact. And I do not remember the canon which says that Sirius *dared* him to do anything either. Sirius gave him the information, Snape used it. Sirius did not tell him the whole information, for sure. Once Snape decided to use it, absolutely he could have been killed easily (not a great loss if you ask me but I digress), and as I said many times Remus, whom I see as the only truly innocent in this thing could have been executed.

Everything else you said pretty much what I said already that I do not disagree with, so I snipped.

But it will always boggle my mind when Snape is described as somebody who did not have a choice in the matter and thus an innocent one. Duped, for sure, big time. Could have been killed? Absolutely. But as far as I am concerned, nobody dared him or  *knew* that he would have taken the dare. 

JMO,

Alla