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

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 190515


.> 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.

Alla:

Expected, wanted, REALLY hoped, is not the same as *knew* that he would go though. Again, to me what Sirius wanted out of is completely irrelevant. I mean it is quite obvious that nothing GOOD would have come out of it, isn't it? Still Snape went 

Potioncat: 
> 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.


Alla:

Agreed, very similar situation. Totally agreed. And still nobody forced Harry to go, absolutely nobody. The small difference is of course that Harry did not have time and time and time to obsess over what is going on in that place, BUT let me stress, I totally think that Harry did not have to go there. Of course eleven year old boys  and rational thinking is even more rare combination than fifteen year olds, but absolutely to me it is very comparable. Harry went, Harry did not have to go. He paid the price and quite deservingly so. And you know how much I love Harry's character and hate Draco's. Facts are facts.