[HPforGrownups] Re: Snape after the DADA job

[Margaret Dean]

No: HPFGUIDX 23810

mgrantwich at yahoo.com wrote:
> 
> >>So what is disgusting? The potion, the rumour, or Snape?  What does
> >>Lupin know?
> 
> It was the potion that was disgusting; Lupin also said that it was
> too bad that sugar ruined it but would presumably improve the taste.
> 
> Lupin knows that it is bad form to run down a fellow professor to a
> student of the school.  It would be considered very unprofessional.

True, but that wouldn't necessarily prevent him saying that the
=rumor= was disgusting.  That would be him sticking up for Snape,
in a way.  "It's disgusting that people would say such things
about a Hogwarts professor."

I agree the remark is highly ambiguous, and I'm sure it's by
design.  :)


--Margaret Dean
  <margdean at erols.com>