Female and male characters

[kiricat2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 33338

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> wrote:
> 
> The male characters echo various aspects of Harry's struggles.   
> Arthur, Hagrid, Lupin and Sirius are all displaced and   deprived 
> of something important to them.  Snape is also displaced, 
> although we don't know for sure whether he is an unsung hero 
> or an unpunished scoundrel. Even Dumbledore was deprived of 
> his position for a while.
> 
McGonagall ranks 
> superior to both Snape, who could use some of her fairness, 
> and Lupin, who could use her self-discipline in dealing with a 
> disliked colleague. It's clear that McGonagall would like to 
> ridicule Trelawney the way Lupin does Snape, but she restrains 
> herself. If Lupin had done the same, he'd still have a job. 
> 
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I have to take issue with this.  McGonagall makes her feelings about 
Trelawney and her Seeing abilities pretty clear at the Christmas 
dinner in PoA.  While she is not openly ridiculing Trelawney, her 
comments are fairly pointed. 

And, I also can't agree that it's Lupin's treatment of Snape that 
lost him his job.  Snape never wanted him to be there and used 
whatever ammunition he could find during the school year to undermine 
Lupin.  As far as the Lupin-Snape boggart incident, it's not Lupin's 
fault that Neville's greatest fear is Snape - I'd say that's Snape's 
fault.  Yes, Lupin helped Neville out in making boggart-Snape look 
ridiculous, but that seems to be the only incident where Lupin has a 
hand in doing anything to possibly ridicule Snape.  His other 
interactions with Snape are unfailingly polite and professional, and 
these attributes are not returned in kind by Snape.  We know that 
Snape did not want Lupin teaching at Hogwarts.  On Halloween night 
after the discovery of the slashed Fat Lady, Snape says to Dumbledore 
that Black must have had inside help in getting into the castle, 
referring to Lupin.  When Snape teaches Harry's DADA class, he uses 
the opportunity to try to make them realize Lupin is a werewolf, and 
finally, when all else fails, he lets slip the werewolf secret in the 
hearing of the Slytherins.  

Marianne, in full werewolf defense mode...