How Snape is like Harry

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No: HPFGUIDX 28931

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Cindy C." <cynthiaanncoe at h...> 
wrote:

> One quick nit:  there is one instance in which Snape 
specifically disregarded Dumbledore's wishes  <snip>Snape 
clearly knows that Dumbledore has 
> kept it quiet that Lupin is a werewolf.  <<snip>>.  Then, when 
that doesn't work, he just blabs it 
> straight out.
> 
> I'd say that this amounts to disobeying Dumbledore's wishes, 
and 
> Snape is lucky he doesn't get tossed out on his ear for it.  (OK, 
> that would never happen, but I can dream, can't I?)

Lupin "accidentally" forgot to take his potion, also disobeying 
Dumbledore's wishes, and endangering the whole school. 
It's only then that Snape "accidentally" lets slip that Lupin is a 
werewolf. 
Snape probably felt that his silence was conditional on 
Lupin holding up his end of the deal, and anyway, it was an 
accident, right?  As a bonus, it also gives credence to the threat 
Snape makes in GoF,  that he just might "slip" veritaserum into 
Harry's pumpkin juice.
Pippin