[HPforGrownups] Snape Afraid of Lupin, was Oh, but he IS nice

[Fiat Incantatum]

No: HPFGUIDX 39301

On 1 Jun 2002 at 11:05, Alina wrote:

> Pippin wrote:
> 
> Alina wrote:
> 
> >>>I don't remember seeing evidence of Snape being scared of 
> Lupin. He probably was terrified when he was younger, but it 
> seems to have all gone into hate over the years. <<<
> 
> Snape backs out of the room when he delivers the potion.
> 
> When Snape moves in on the Shack, he ties up Lupin, never 
> Sirius, though Sirus is supposed to be a wizard who killed 
> thirteen people with a single curse and may be carrying the knife 
> he used to attack the Fat Lady and Ron's curtains. Obviously 
> Snape considers Lupin the greater threat.
> 
> 
> Reply:
> 
> I don't really think he backed out of the room because he was afraid, more
> like he wanted to see what Lupin and Harry were talking about. Or perhaps
> he was even worried about Harry. As for considering him the greater
> threat, wouldn't you? Lupin is a werewolf and Sirius Black is supposed to
> be mostly drained by the Dementors. Even if Snape still has fear left from
> his childhood, I think it's more or less a common-sensical fear.
>

One thing you are all forgetting.  Snape wasn't *tying up* Lupin to 
prevent him from moving ... he was *silencing* him.

PoA, US edition, Chapter 19:

"You fool," said Lupin softly.  "Is a schoolboy grudge worth putting an 
innocent man back inside Azkaban?"

BANG!  Thin, snakelike cords burst from the end of Snape's wand and 
twisted themselves around Lupin's mouth, wrists and ankles; he 
overbalanced and fell to the floor, unable to move.

That's the last we hear out of Lupin until someone ungags him later in 
the chapter.  Snape wasn't afraid of what Lupin might DO, he was afraid 
of what Lupin might SAY.

  
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