Fred. After which George marries the girl who by all accounts was Fred's love interest, which is kind of odd, but in a way makes sense too.

Probably. Makes me wonder what would happen if the Headmaster of Hogwarts was someone evil (really evil, not just Snape), what with them being sworn to obey...

I believe we do, but I don't remember what it is. Isn't it something about her marrying a naturalist and being in the same field herself?

Yes. I was quite shocked the other day when looking something up in the HP Wiki to see that they are essentially taking the movies as canon of nearly equal status with the books, which is just all kinds of wrong.

Presumably he knows that much, but there's a difference between "in the hospital" and "in mortal danger". Likely his father was out of mortal danger by the time he heard, and they never told him it had ever been so bad.

Or, you know, he might just be that much of a "git".

We'll have to see when we hit the next book - from what I recall, he doesn't seem quite so aware at first. This might be somewhat anomalous, then... we'll see.


I'm not using it as a basis for judgement of Sirius' character so much as a basis for why Snape is hostile to Sirius. Certainly I don't think that anyone who ever participated in bullying someone in high school has to be a bad person. But when the victim then acts cruelly in return later, it *is* quite relevant to bring it up.

But okay, not "for no good reason", then.

It's not so flimsy when you look at that excellent scene at the end of book six, actually, when Harry confronts Snape after Dumbledore's death. Quoting from memory here, Snape says something like "Blocked again and again, until you learn to cast your spells without opening your mouth" - he's furious, hurt, emotions all over the place, has just burned his bridges and gone off to play a very dangerous game with Voldemort, but still he takes time to impart a lesson while duelling with Harry.

It doesn't excuse his behaviour to his students, but lots of teachers in the real world are sometimes cruel in their classroom, too, just part of their teaching style. So I don't think your theory is entirely off.

But certainly, his needling Sirius isn't pretty - about comparable to his ridiculous and equally needless behaviour to Harry in late book four when Harry wanted to get Dumbledore to Crouch and Krum. Snape is many things, but not a kind or great-hearted man.


That was just my poor phrasing/remembering. I mean simply the relaying of the prophecy to Voldemort which leads to the Potters' hiding and having a Secret Keeper. Or whatever you call that person with the Fidelius charm thing.