Lily's friend - Snape's grudge

[monika at darwin.inka.de]

No: HPFGUIDX 15188

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., MMMfanfic at h... wrote:

> 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.

Well, I don't think that Dumbledore has blackmailed him into silence,
but let's face it: Snape isn't the innocent boy who was lurred into
the tunnel by evil Sirius Black. He had to go there all by himself, 
and that's why Dumbledore simply had put part of the blame on him, 
too. Maybe he was even punished like Sirius supposedly was, and I am 
sure that Dumbledore required silence about Remus being a werewolf
from everybody who was involved, including Snape. Why? He had let
Remus into the school because he wanted to offer him the opportunity
to go to school, finish his education and enable him to get a job
later. If he asked James, Sirius and Snape to keep the secret about
Remus, it wasn't blackmail at all IMHO. Maybe Snape actually *had*
some dirty little secrets, but I think it didn't matter at all and
wouldn't have changed anything to Dumbledore's decision.

Monika