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

[dorothy dankanyin]

No: HPFGUIDX 190520

> > Pippin:
> <SNIP>
> >  In any case, saying that Sirius set Snape up in no way absolves Snape 
> of responsibility for his rule-breaking, any more than it clears someone 
> of a murder charge to say that someone else helped him do it.
>
> Alla:
> <snip>
> I think "Sirius knew that Snape will take the dare" is the gist of the 
> argument with which I am most vehemently disagreeing. Sirius took some 
> legilimency classes and did it to Snape? Because unless there is a proof 
> of that there is absolutely no way he *knew*. He may have had a pretty 
> good idea, he may have suspected, but choice to go there was Snape and 
> only Snape's eventually. Nobody put a gun to his head and said "you must 
> go there".  <snip>

Dorothy-
  First of all, I am introducing myself here, this is my first post.  Both 
of you are right in some sense here.  Neither of them could have forseen, 
nor could they even think that far ahead in the heat of the impulses of the 
teenage brain, the consequences.  They each, both Sirius and Snape, 
followed their character's impulses, not their common sense.  I think Snape 
wanted to find something out to get the others in trouble, and Sirius wanted 
to scare Snape.
  From the latest scientific studies, the teenage brain hasn't yet developed 
enough to look ahead at consequences all the time.  Even Harry, in the heat 
of emotion, forgets at times to follow a thought to its expected 
conclusion.  As we all at sometimes were guilty of ourselves.  JKR, in my 
opinion, has nailed the characters and their emotional responses to their 
situations perfectly.  All their talents, faults, learnings, and ultimate 
heroism were depicted perfectly, and made me feel like these were real 
people.
  Think peace,
    Dorothy