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

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> Alla:
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> 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. 

Potioncat:
And it is canon fact that Sirius expected Severus to take the bait. Could he be 100% certain?-no, He couldn't know 100% that Severus would go---maybe Severus would reconsider, or chicken out or be detained. But if Severus had not gone, Sirius would have been disappointed. His whole reason for telling Severus was so that Severus would go down the tunnel.

It's the same situation that happened in the first year. Draco tricked Harry into a duel. Harry was going to meet Draco in the dead of night out of a sense of honor (11-year-old boy honor). But it wasn't going to be Draco he met, but Filch. And it's much more like the year Harry was following Draco, trying to prove what a danger Draco was. That's the same thing Severus was doing.

My apologies to those who get this via email. After I hit send, I saw I hadn't finished snipping the post.