What is brave? (WAS Re: Snapers vs. Sirists; Snape knew about the passageway)

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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "lucky_kari" <lucky_kari at y...> wrote:
> Snape isn't brave because he possibly feels brave? Now, I know that 
> you can be brave and not feel it, but since when did feeling it 
mean 
> you weren't brave?

    I just reread this post.   I must have only skimmed it quickly 
before, because I guess I didn't quite understand what you meant. 
    I didn't mean that Snape was not brave because he "feels" brave. 
I actually don't think that is what I said at all.  I was trying to 
say that snape was not acting out of bravery, he was acting out of 
revenge and the need to prove himself.  I don't think that Snape has 
never acted bravely, I just don't think that was the case in this 
particular instance.  I also don't think that he needed to fear Lupin 
at that point, because he knew that the moon had not 
been "revealed".  He saw Lupin going for the Whomping Willow, and saw 
it as his chance to show that he was right about Lupin.  He was not 
going with the express intent of giving him the potion.  

     Actually, now that I think about it.  Did Snape have the potion 
with him, or did he leave it in Lupin's office? I remember that Snape 
said that Lupin had forgotten to take the potion, and that's why 
Snape went to his (Lupin's) office.  If Snape had the potion with 
him, wouldn't he have given the potion to lupin?  I would think that 
while in the process of "turning Lupin in" he wouldn't really want 
him going and transforming on him. I don't know.  I just never 
thought about it before.  Can anyone shed a bit of light on this for 
me.  
Thanks!
Carrie