Living With Snape

[Margaret Dean]

No: HPFGUIDX 28307

MMMfanfic at hotmail.com wrote:

> But he's showing sign that he can rise above that.  One of the more
> admirable things Snape has done in PoA is how he brewed the Wolfsbane
> Potion for Lupin even though he hated him, wanted him sacked.  It
> would have been easy for him to just refuse to do it.  (It's not in
> my contract, Dumbledore.) or deliberately screw up. (Ooops, I did it
> again.)

I think Snape simply has too much professional pride to do either
of those things.  Refusing to make it might imply that this
tricky, complicated potion was too difficult for him;
deliberately screwing up would look like he failed.  Anyway,
Snape has a certain underlying integrity and his profession as a
potions master is one place it shows up most strongly.

I wonder if, perhaps, this is the one aspect of his life that he
never =has= screwed up.


--Margaret Dean
  <margdean at erols.com>