u/TheWineDude_

I don’t think it grasped the seriousness and callousness of his actions when I first read the books. I used to think Snape was just an idiot for falling for it, and that Sirius just recklessly told him the truth, but now I'm not so sure.

From u/ItsASnitch:

/It is questionable if Snape did originally suspect Lupin was a werewolf.

The only implication that he knew we have is:

>“I know your theory,”

From Lily, which people take to mean he presented it to her multiple times for some reason. But this sentence makes perfect sense even if he just told it to her once prior to the conversation—which happens after the prank. So it's not a very convincing argument.

On the other hand,

Lupin calls it a "trick", Snape refers to it as "a highly amusing joke", and everyone else calls it a "prank" - all are implying there was some sort of deception going on not just "Hey there is a werewolf here's how you get to it." So yes, Sirius did deceive him in some way.

Luring someone or deceiving them to their death is still attempted murder.

Not to mention I don't think many people would consider even their bullies to go so far as to try to murder them. You are blaming Snape for assuming a classmate isn't going to use his best friend as a murder weapon. This is not an unreasonable assumption to have!

What Snape did suspect was that all of Marauders were doing something, he says they all sneak out at night and he saw Lupin with Madam Pomfrey.

>“They sneak out at night. There’s something weird about that Lupin. Where does he keep going?”

>"Sneaking around, trying to find out what we were up to… hoping he could get us expelled."

(The Marauders were animagi and were letting Lupin loose at this point. Snape didn't know that, just that they were all sneaking out to go after Lupin)

Lupin also implies Snape didn't know he was a werewolf before then.

>"He was forbidden by Dumbledore to tell anybody, but from that time on he knew what I was."

So Snape either:

-Didn't suspect Lupin was a werewolf (most likely)

-He did suspect Lupin was a werewolf but assumed he was also somehow restrained because the rest of Marauders were safe to go after him. So he most likely suspected what they were doing was releasing a werewolf. (Which was true)

Whichever it is - it is Sirius who is at fault and deserving punishment for tricking another student into a deadly situation and nearly turning his best friend into a murderer./

This comment convinced me Snape wasn't at fault for falling for the trick, but I was still conflicted about Sirius' motivations. If it was a reckless heat of the moment decision, he would've regretted it right? But JAMES was the one who recognized the gravity of Sirius' actions and saved Snape, not the other way around. Sirius also never regretted it and maintenance even as an adult that Snape deserved it just because he was trying to get them expelled (after years of bullying). And the worst part is, they probably did deserve expulsion because Lupin had "many near misses" aside from Snape where he could've bitten or killed someone.

It also didn't make sense to me why Sirius would tell Snape the secret if he was just trying to give him a scare. In that scenario, Snape would've gotten confirmation of Remus' secret and told the whole school. But if he ate him or bit him......the problem of Snape stalking them would've been solved. I think Sirius thought this attempted murder was him doing Lupin and the rest of the Marauders a favor.

There's no scenario in which you can really give Sirius the benefit of the doubt here.

In the books, Death Eaters and Grindelwald followers weren't the only who practiced or studied the Dark Arts. Students like Krum learned and praciticed Dark Magic at Durmstrang, and the students didn't seem evil when the visited Hogwarts. Pottermore calls their teachings martial magic, which is basically what Dark spells are (offensive spells as opposed to defensive).

Non-evil characters like Dumbledore and Slughorn have a lot of knowledge about the Dark Arts, and Dumbledore was pretty interested in dabbling with that sort of thing as a young adult (wanting to bring his mom back to life).

And I imagine there are plenty of legitimate avenues through which you can study or practice the Dark Arts, like Cursebreaking and Duelling Championships. Even if it's frowned upon in Britain there are areas in Europe that don't mind the use of Dark Magic.

Also, there seems to be a bias about what people call Dark Magic and what they don't, based on whether they considered the spell evil enough or not.

Curses, jinxes and hexes are all Dark Magic but Lily says that the Marauders don't use it even though she knows they hex people (and Sirius and James even got a detention for using an illegel hex that inflates someone's head, possibly because it could've killed their victim). But she says their humour wasn't evil, unlike Mulciber’s (whose hex/curse/jinx she was fine with calling Dark Magic).

But this is a completely subjective point of view. It's true that Mulciber later became a Death Eater and James and Sirius were heroes, but as people are fond of saying with Snape, being a hero, joining the Order, fighting against blood prejudice, doesn't mean you're a good person. Even if they grew out of it, I'd say letting a werewolf out of the Shrieking Shack despite multiple near misses in which he couldve bitten/killed people is pretty evil if you continue doing it.

I personally headcanon that Mulciber tried to use Levicorpus on Mary MacDonald, and the reason Lily found it so evil and creepy is because of the context of a boy doing it to a girl, probably with the same intentions that James had when he used it on Snape. I say this because Snape uses the exact same excuse that Ron did when it was used on him by Harry ("just a laugh"), and it explains why Lily "almost smiled" when she saw it done to Snape.

The weird thing is it seems like Snape never took credit for the spell, as Lupin mentioned it was popular in Hogwarts but didn't realize it was Snape’s invention. Maybe it started in the Slytherin Boy's dorm, like it did when Harry used it. I can see some people thinking the spell was funny in certain circumstances but evil in others.

Like multiple books or interviews and information about their victims, that sort of thing.

I dislike fics in which Tom murders/tortures innocent people and Harry just gets sad about it but doesn't let it affect his love for Tom. In canon, Harry has a very strong sense of justice and ethics. So I'm looking for fics where he's like that, and he struggles with his love/attraction to Tom and doesn't back down or forgive him when he does something evil, but requires real change in Tom or even considers killing him and fights him when he's does something like, let's say, unleashing the Basilisk on muggle-borns. He doesn't let Tom corrupt him, basically. Instead, he makes Tom a better person, while still keeping Tom in character.

I hope that makes sense.

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