Sirius Rehabilitated WAS [the_old_crowd] Re: Snape's Social Life

[Eileen Rebstock]

Talisman wrote:
> I don't really see Snape as the posse type.  More the lone gunman.
All
> in black.  Silver spurs.  Likes it that way.

Not in Sirius's recollections. I know it's the fashion right now to
regard Sirius as a raving maniac who can't be trusted to tell us which
way is up and which is down, but I think such a reading does violence to
the text... well makes it infinitely less interesting, to speak
honestly. GoF just makes no thematic sense if we can't trust a word
Sirius says. 

Particularly since the main reason for disregarding Sirius's commentary
on Snape, the Death Eaters, the Ministry, Crouch etc. seems to be a
demonstrably doomed attempt to wrestle JKR's dates into order. At this
point, I say, forget the dates, go for the meat. Sirius's moral
commentary is more important to me than who was born in what year.

Ok, the [Fill In the Blank] is Ever So Evil lobbyists probably also have
a stake in all this, and will be along to explain how all the
contradictions can be resolved by the simple acknowledgment of [Fill In
The Blank]'s many and most manifest crimes.

Eileen