HP canon question

[averygoodun42]

Did 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.)

Comments

[scatteredlogic.livejournal.com]

Actually, Lupin told Harry, Hermione and Ron about it when they first encountered Sirius in the Shrieking Shack during Prisoner of Azkaban. From Chapter 18:

"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...."

[averygoodun.livejournal.com]

Aha! I had this niggling thought that they'd been told, but it's been so long...

Thank you!

[scatteredlogic.livejournal.com]

You're welcome! (And it took me a while to locate it, too. I really need to re-read the series.)

[kribu.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, right! Well, at least I remembered it right that Harry didn't tell the others about that. :-D

Although Lupin does make it sound rather less terrifying and potentially dangerous than it seems to have been.

[scatteredlogic.livejournal.com]

I think that story came out in bits and pieces throughout several books, and we never learned the entirety of it. I don't think that bit about being forbidden by Dumbledore to tell anyone was ever really explained, as I recall, nor how he managed to keep Snape from telling after he left Hogwarts. Knowing that Dumbledore allowed a werewolf free run of the school would have been of interest to Voldemort, I'd have thought, and it seems like the sort of information that a new Death Eater would offer up as a gift. It would have been handy political info to have, at least. ~shrug~