[HPforGrownups] Re: New thought, old topic

[devika261 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 24806

In a message dated 8/23/01 4:28:03 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
cynthiaanncoe at home.com writes:


> I suggest that the reason that Snape calls Lupin has something to do 
> with the joke Sirius played on Snape to cause Snape to almost run 
> into Lupin/werewolf in the Shrieking Shack.  Perhaps the joke was 
> played using the Marauder's Map.  Sirius had betwitched the map to 
> tip Snape off about Lupin, using the same sort of charm that caused 
> it to insult Snape.  
> 
> So when Snape sees these same nicknames insulting him, he calls 
> Lupin.  Snape summons Lupin not because Lupin is the DADA teacher 
> (Snape doesn't even respect Lupin enough to give him the satisfaction 
> of seeking Lupin's advice).  Rather, Snape summons Lupin because 
> Snape thinks Lupin was "in on the joke" the last time Snape saw the 
> Marauder's Map and can explain why the map is behaving the same way 
> it did when Snape was tricked long ago.
> 
> This also makes sense when we are told that Lupin is doing some very 
> fast thinking.  He is piecing together that Snape has seen the map 
> before, that it was the source of the joke, etc.
> 

I think you raised an interesting possibility here.  It made me think of 
something else.  In PoA, Lupin tells Harry that he happens to know that the 
Marauder's Map was confiscated by Filch many years ago.  Is it possible that 
Filch took the Map after the joke?  It would also make sense, then, that 
Filch didn't know the true nature of the Map (Fred and George said this when 
they gave the Map to Harry).
I definitely agree with you that Snape did not call Lupin for his expertise 
in DADA.  There was most certainly something else there, and I think what you 
said makes a lot of sense.  

Devika, who really really wants to know more about what happened between 
Sirius and Snape... where's book 5??
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