[HPforGrownups] Re: Young Snape - H/N - Mrs Figg

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 15290

MMMfanfic at hotmail.com wrote:

> Well, then we agree to disagree then.
> My reasoning of why Dumbledore can't expel Snape is the following:
> It's known that werewolves are dangerous and the parents will be happy
> if someone blew the whistle -- not withstanding the fact that Lupin is
> not particularly dangerous.

I have to know where you get this. Lupin, as a werewolf, by definition
is dangerous. Dangerous is an understatement--at the point in time when
Lupin was a student, it was not only incurable but uncontrollable.

> No, I'm not ignoring the fact that Dumbledore can expel him but he has
> to have a very, very good reason such as the death or serious injury
> to a fellow student.

We have no examples in canon for the minimum reason necessary to expel a
student. You're probably right, but phrased as "grave concerns" or
something, and approved by the Board, any reason would probably do.

> May be it's because I am younger and still remember how school and
> punishment works. There's a due process involving expulsion because as
> you mentioned, there are grave consequences and they have to make sure
> everyone is being treated fairly.

You remember Muggle school (or I am intensely jealous). Several posts on
the legal system of the wizarding world seem to indicate that it is less
concerned with due process, at least in some instances, than we are.

> I'm questioning whether Snape's 'a good Potions teacher' but somehow,
> I always feel there are more between Snape and Dumbledore than reveal
> to us.

Which makes this postulated adversarial, threat-based theory unlikely,
in my opinion.

--Amanda


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