[HPforGrownups] Re: Marauder's Map; Snape vs. Lupin

[Peg Kerr]

No: HPFGUIDX 4639

Amanda Lewanski wrote:

> Susan McGee wrote:
>
> > So, how come the map recognizes Snape and insults him? Because
> > the four Marauders set it up to do that in case their schoolmate
> > Snape ever tried to use the map.
>
> But it insulted Snape as a professor at Hogwarts, not a student. I'll grant
> that the map insulted him by name and title because he identified
> himself--it was just that the insults seemed so appropriate to Snape
> himself, like the map knew the correct physical insults for this person,
> regardless of whether it knew his name.
>
> Did that make any sense?

Yes, it's PERSONAL.  Not just a generic bit of magic parchment from a joke
shop; it's personally tailored to Snape.

You know, when Lupin reads the parchment, Harry notices that he seems to be
doing some fast thinking.  I'll bet that in some small corner of his mind,
Lupin was also struggling to keep from breaking out into wild guffaws of
laughter.

There are several references in the text to the fact that Snape didn't get
along with James when they were all in school together.  How did he get along
with Lupin himself when they were young?  I strongly suspect the answer is "not
well."  Besides the fact that Snape hated James and perhaps Sirius, Lupin's
best friends, there was all the fallout from James' prank.  I suspect Snape and
Lupin never exactly had close confidential chats between classes.

You know, I think I would like to be a fly on the wall in the teacher's lounge
during the year Lupin is teaching at Hogwarts--I will bet that the interaction
between Lupin and Snape has been fraught all year, particularly on Snape's part
(well, practically everything is fraught on Snape's part).  There was the
business about Snape assigning the werewolf essay to Lupin's class, too.

Yep, I bet they STILL don't have close, confidential chats after class.

Is the hostility all on Snape's side?  Or is there some on Lupin's side as
well?  I haven't really seen much in the way from hostility from Lupin.  Even
when confronting Peter in the Shrieking Shack, he doesn't seem furiously angry
the way Sirius does, just grimly determined.  Does he just hide hostility
well?  Does he exorcize it all once a month during the full month, so he's
really extraordinarily mild-mannered the rest of the month?

Thoughts?

Peg