HP canon question
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averygoodun42Did Harry (or anyone) ever tell Hermione and Ron about Snape's near werewolf encounter? And if it isn't stated in the books, do you think he would have? (I am assuming an honorable Harry who would never have told them about any of the memories he saw in the Pensieve or during Occlumency lessons, even after Snape's death.)
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Date: 2011-02-15 04:33 pm (UTC)As for whether he would have... possibly later. The feeling I got was that he wasn't too keen on sharing what sort of things his father and his friends had been up to.
But that's just a guess. And while I really cannot remember him ever telling Ron or Hermione about what he knew, it's been a while since I read the relevant books, so it's possibly I just can't remember if he did.
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Date: 2011-02-15 04:41 pm (UTC)The books don't explicitly say whether he told them about the Prank. His father supposedly saved Snape's life, so you think he'd want to talk about that. Still, I think Harry, in some unconscious way, was ashamed of the way Snape was treated, and might not have discussed it with anyone. He was generally uncommunicative and even secretive, just like the rest of them, really.
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Date: 2011-02-15 05:15 pm (UTC)(As for being secretive, he was mentored by Albus Dumbledore! Need more be said?)
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Date: 2011-02-15 05:10 pm (UTC)"Severus was very interested in where I went every month." Lupin told
Harry, Ron, and Hermione. "We were in the same year, you know, and we —
er — didn't like each other very much. He especially disliked James.
Jealous, I think, of James's talent on the Quidditch field... anyway
Snape had seen me crossing the grounds with Madam Pomfrey one evening as
she led me toward the Whomping Willow to transform. Sirius thought it
would be — er — amusing, to tell Snape all he had to do was prod the
knot on the tree trunk with a long stick, and he'd be able to get in
after me. Well, of course, Snape tried it — if he'd got as far as this
house, he'd have met a fully grown werewolf — but your father, who'd
heard what Sirius had done, went after Snape and pulled him back, at
great risk to his life... Snape glimpsed me, though, at the end of the
tunnel. He was forbidden by Dumbledore to tell anybody, but from that
time on he knew what I was...."
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Date: 2011-02-15 05:11 pm (UTC)Thank you!
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Date: 2011-02-15 05:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-15 06:36 pm (UTC)Although Lupin does make it sound rather less terrifying and potentially dangerous than it seems to have been.
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Date: 2011-02-15 06:43 pm (UTC)