Well, we're told that Sev had seen POPPY take Lupin to the Whomping Willow.
If that tunnel did NOT lead to an enclosed space where the wolf was secured, Hogwarts staff were loosing a werewolf near Hogswarts/Hogsmeade. Committing the Marauders' crime, in fact.
(But you're right, the reader assumption is probably another case of "we all know this, so the character must have too". Sloppy readership.)
Now, if there actually were a werewolf pack in the FF, it could be assumed that the tunnel loosed RL to join them. Maybe (one would hope!) with some barrier at the other end preventing all the werewolves from surging back up the tunnel and invading the Hogwarts grounds....
But, was there really a pack? Or would Severus have believed there to be? Or was that a rumor started by Lupin's and Black's howling? Even if there were, given what werewolf packs seemed like in HBP, would you want a teen boy exposed to and acculterated by them? And would they accept said teen, stinking of wizards as he did?
Of course, would teen!Severus have thought of any of this?
Regarding defenses of the Prank, however, whatever Severus knew or believed, SIrius knew the truth: that he was sending Snape down a tunnel with no escape routes or defensible side rooms, to face an unconfined werewolf in a restricted space.
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Date: 2012-08-08 02:31 pm (UTC)If that tunnel did NOT lead to an enclosed space where the wolf was secured, Hogwarts staff were loosing a werewolf near Hogswarts/Hogsmeade. Committing the Marauders' crime, in fact.
(But you're right, the reader assumption is probably another case of "we all know this, so the character must have too". Sloppy readership.)
Now, if there actually were a werewolf pack in the FF, it could be assumed that the tunnel loosed RL to join them. Maybe (one would hope!) with some barrier at the other end preventing all the werewolves from surging back up the tunnel and invading the Hogwarts grounds....
But, was there really a pack? Or would Severus have believed there to be? Or was that a rumor started by Lupin's and Black's howling? Even if there were, given what werewolf packs seemed like in HBP, would you want a teen boy exposed to and acculterated by them? And would they accept said teen, stinking of wizards as he did?
Of course, would teen!Severus have thought of any of this?
Regarding defenses of the Prank, however, whatever Severus knew or believed, SIrius knew the truth: that he was sending Snape down a tunnel with no escape routes or defensible side rooms, to face an unconfined werewolf in a restricted space.