Snape & Lupin Loose Cannons?

[bluebellblaze]

No: HPFGUIDX 33396

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "judyserenity" <judyshapiro at e...> wrote:
> "cindysphynx" wrote:
> > As for the Cross-Dressing Snape incident, I don't see that as 
> > unprofessional on Lupin's part.  He didn't suggest that Neville 
> > envision Snape; Neville did.  Snape, of course, helped Neville 
make 
> > that association by belittling Neville in the staff room.  Lupin 
> > gave Neville ideas on how to make Snape look ridiculous.  There 
are 
> > far more humiliating ways to make Snape look ridiculous than the 
one 
> > Lupin suggested, and we have no way of knowing that Snape ever 
even 
> > learned about Neville's boggart battle....  
> 

(snip)

> 
> Snape *did* find out about this incident -- it says the 
story "spread 
> like wildfire", and there are several mentions of Snape being angry 
> about it. 
> 

And I would add, in case no one else has, that the episode at a 
subsequent dinner (Ch 11), where IIRC, Dumbledore has Snape pull the 
other end of the Christmas cracker and out pops a wizard's hat topped 
with a stuffed vulture (just like Neville's boggart grandma/Madame 
Snape wears), is meant to reference this humiliating event for Snape. 
I find it also interesting that this little reminder is created by 
Dumbledore, at a very public event (the Christmas feast), and that 
Snape does nothing more than push the offending hat away toward D in 
disgust. I like that touch. :)