I always like to think he had a one-to-one with Severus later and calmed him down!
They must've had a talk at some point, since by the tame Snape and Sirius see each other again at the end of GoF, Snape has accepted, however grudgingly, that Sirius is innocent. But I have no idea if this conversation took place hours later or months later. (And man, would I have loved to be a fly on the wall for that scene.)
I felt so, so sorry for Snape here. For all his vengeful nastiness, he genuinely believed he was in the right, and had good cause to believe it. Unfortunately for him, he had missed most of the important bits of the Shrieking Shack revelations. And he asked Dumbledore to choose at a moment when the only acceptable choice was against him. Dumbledore was not going to hand Sirius over to the Dementors just to make Snape feel better. By losing his temper and forcing the issue in front of Fudge, Snape made his own humiliation inevitable. It makes my stomach hurt every time I reread those scenes.
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Date: 2004-05-28 10:59 am (UTC)They must've had a talk at some point, since by the tame Snape and Sirius see each other again at the end of GoF, Snape has accepted, however grudgingly, that Sirius is innocent. But I have no idea if this conversation took place hours later or months later. (And man, would I have loved to be a fly on the wall for that scene.)
I felt so, so sorry for Snape here. For all his vengeful nastiness, he genuinely believed he was in the right, and had good cause to believe it. Unfortunately for him, he had missed most of the important bits of the Shrieking Shack revelations. And he asked Dumbledore to choose at a moment when the only acceptable choice was against him. Dumbledore was not going to hand Sirius over to the Dementors just to make Snape feel better. By losing his temper and forcing the issue in front of Fudge, Snape made his own humiliation inevitable. It makes my stomach hurt every time I reread those scenes.