Lily's friend - Snape's grudge

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No: HPFGUIDX 15187

The curious thing is why didn't the teenage Snape let it slip that 
Lupin is a werewolf (or even just dropping hints like 'I wonder where 
Lupin is today -- isn't it full moon yesterday?' or 'What is it with 
Lupin?  He seems to be sick once every month.'  Well, may be he did 
indeed but everyone else is too dumb to pick it up.)  Lupin is 
definitely a goner if Snape ever told anyone.  There's nothing 
Dumbledore can do about it if the teenage Snape didn't keep his 
word.  Just as there's nothing Dumbledore can do when the Potions 
Master decide to let all Slytherins know.
My theory, totally unsupported by the canon, is that the teenage 
Snape has some dark secrets of his own and Dumbledore has implicitly 
blackmailed him into silence.

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Amanda Lewanski <editor at t...> wrote:
> zora_djevojka at y... wrote:
> 
> > Not really an answer to Catlady's question, but why didn't teenage
> > Snape push to get Sirius expelled. He could have, he certainly
> > believed that Sirius attempted to kill him through that "prank".
> 
> How do we know that he didn't? Sirius himself makes the comment
> someplace that Snape was always following them around, trying to get
> them expelled. I'm betting that Snape *did* try to get Sirius 
expelled,
> on this and probably other occasions, but that Sirius had managed 
to let
> the info about the tunnel "slip" or be overheard or something other
> than, "Hey, Sev, ol' buddy ol' pal, here's where we go." Only the 
latter
> would indicate intent, and only clear intent would be enough to 
expel (I
> think).
> 
> Kind of adds a dimension to Snape's "whoops" slip of the tongue 
about
> Lupin being a werewolf. Doing the same to Lupin as Lupin's friend 
did to
> him. ["Oh, terribly sorry, did I *say* that? My mistake...." but 
damage
> done.]
> 
> --Amanda
> 
> 
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