XPOST: Lupin is Ever So Evil Part One -- The Prank (long)

[Barry Arrowsmith]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "fritter_my_wig" <eloiseherisson at a...> wrote:
> 
> Eloise:
> Not being quite as devious as you ;-) I'll stick with the simple 
> theory that he simply couldn't stand being rescued by the person he 
> detested most in the school (for whatever reason), particularly as,
> 
> >From what we're told it's James and Sirius that strut the corridors
> > hexing anyone that annoys them, not Snape.
> 
> Again, I think he found it humiliating also, perhaps, disconcerting 
> that the talented waster who bullied him so in OoP had a decent side. 
> Much easier, as Dumbledore implied, just to get on with hating 
> someone than to have the situation complicated with life debts and 
> all.

Kneasy:
Devious is good, devious is *fun*. Besides one needs to scale the heights
of deviosity in order to pin DD down. 

The way Sirius recounts things in PoA, there wasn't all that much
history between WMPP and Snape before this - Sirius is grumbling on
about "sneaking around" and "sticking his nose in" - there's no
evidence that it was much more than irritation on the Marauders part
and 'not minding his own business' on the part of Snape. So why
would he get so agitated that it was James in particular that came to 
the rescue? No reason at all, that I can see. It's the actual 'Prank" and 
what happened after that is the root of Snape's animus IMO - particularly
that the offenders seem to get off scot-free. 
Now that really would piss him off.

And I certainly don't accept all that flannel  that DD showers on Harry -
alluding to debts or whatever. Load of tripe. Does Snape act as if he owes
anybody anything? Nope. Just the opposite. That was DD flim-flam,
providing an acceptable motive that Harry could understand without
asking too many questions.
 
> Eloise:
> BTW, you mentioned timing earlier. The timing really is (literally) 
> incredible. Not only is the timing of the transformation critical but 
> James had to get there just in time to pull Snape back *before* he 
> saw Lupin (or else he wouldn't have needed rescuing, he'd presumably 
> have run of his own accord) but late enough that he did catch a 
> glimpse of him (presumably over his shoulder).
> 

Kneasy:
Not I.
That was Pippin, I think.
But I agree, it is critical.
Unless you believe the unmitigated rubbish that the director of that
film had the bare-faced gall to perpetrate on the paying public.