[HPforGrownups] Is Lupin Passive Aggressive? was Re: Sirius' Prank etc

[Jennifer Boggess Ramon]

No: HPFGUIDX 34553

At 12:02 AM +0000 2/1/02, moongirlk wrote:
>--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> wrote:
>
>>  He doesn't leave a lesson plan for his sub though he knows he'll be
>>  absent. 
>
>Drat again, can't justify this one except as a plot device to get
>werewolves on the agenda.

Looking over PoA9, Snape never says that Lupin didn't leave him a 
lesson plan for the day.  What he says is that Lupin hasn't left any 
record of what topics they have covered so far this year - that is, 
that he hasn't left a lesson-plan _book_.  Personally, I leave 
single-page plans for subs, not a planning book.  (Mine is more of a 
folder than a book, anyway.)  And, I know from personal experience 
from both the teacher and the student ends that the sub does not 
always follow the plan that was left.  My impression from Snape's 
constant "_I_ am teaching this class" comments was that Snape had 
made up his mind to teach the werewolf lesson no matter what Lupin 
had or hadn't left him.

My impression of Lupin's teaching style, and his "did you tell him we 
hadn't covered them" queries to the students whe he returns, lead me 
to guess that he left some notes- "pages 112-115, basic hinkypunk 
behavior and defense, answer questions 11-19 at the end of the 
chapter for homework," that sort of thing - for the sub, although 
probably not a full lesson plan.  I doubt he knew it was going to be 
Snape, and I suspect Snape chose to ignore said notes.

And, is it just me, or is there a certain ammount of self-loathing in 
Snape's "I never thought I'd meet a third-year class who wouldn't 
even recognize a werewolf if they saw one" jab?  If _he_'d recognized 
one when he saw one, he'd've never gone into the Whomping Willow, now 
would he?

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