Lupin's Mistake

[heathernmoore]

No: HPFGUIDX 31710

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "cindysphynx" <cindysphynx at h...> wrote:
> Hollydaze wrote:
> 
> > It is actually something else that bugs me, how could Lupin have 
> >had the potion with him in the first place (as pointed out by you) 
> >to have forgotten to take it? And how can Snape have known that he 
> >forgot?
> 
> 
> If I understand your question correctly, you're wondering how Snape 
> knew Lupin forgot his potion and whether all of the events 
> surrounding this make sense.
> 
> I think that they probably do make sense.  JKR establishes that 
when 
> it is potion time, Snape brings the steaming goblet, and Lupin 
drinks 
> it promptly.  So that night, Lupin is just sitting at his desk 
> watching the map, waiting for Snape.  He sees Sirius on the map and 
> takes off.  Then, Snape shows up with the goblet, just like 
before.  
> He goes to set the goblet down on Lupin's desk, figuring Lupin will 
> return momentarily, and sees the map and Lupin running away.
> 
> Maybe the issue is how Snape knows Lupin "forgot" to take his 
> potion.  An answer could be that the normal procedure is for Lupin 
to 
> contact Snape and let him know he is ready for his potion.  Snape, 
> hearing no communication from Lupin, figures that Lupin forgot that 
> the full moon was that night.  So Snape, in a rare and 
> uncharacteristic moment of professional courtesy and compassion, 
> brings the potion to Lupin.  
> 
> One thing about the whole potion brewing issue is intriguing to me, 
> though.  Snape has to brew the potion and then walk it from the 
> dungeon up to Lupin.  It strikes me as odd that Snape would do 
Lupin 
> this favor.  I would expect Lupin, as the junior faculty member, to 
> be required to visit the dungeon to retrieve the potion.  Maybe 
Snape 
> isn't that bad after all?  
> 
> Nah.
> 
> Cindy

  I don't think Snape walking the potion up to Lupin would 
necessarily fall under professional courtesy, so much as "oy, that 
git *has* to have this, and now I have to drag it all the way 
upstairs because the lazy ponce can't be bothered to fulfill his 
responsibility now that Dumbledore has done him such a favor and 
allowed him access to the students although I'm sure once the 
Headmaster hears about *this* negligence on Lupin's part he'll 
finally listen to reason and it's really an imposition that I have to 
be involved at all and if he thinks he's in such good odor that he 
can slack off and be waited on as if I were a common house elf he's 
got another think coming."