Who's Afraid Of The Big, Bad Wolf? (WAS Odd parallels and FEATHERBOAS)

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 36773

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "cindysphynx" <cindysphynx at c...> wrote:
> > This also fits in with hints given earlier in the book that Snape 
> >is 
> > still afraid of Lupin.  
> 
> I hadn't considered the possibility that Snape is afraid of Lupin.  
I 
> kind of reached the opposite conclusion:  that Snape doesn't fear 
> Lupin, Black, Dumbledore or anyone in the wizarding world 
> except . . . Moody.  
> 
> ::smiles at the idea that she now has an additional reason to like 
> Moody::
> 
> There is a canon clue, after all, that Snape does not fear Lupin:  
> 
> "Lupin!"  Snape called into the fire.  "I want a word!"
> 
> Yup, Snape doesn't hesitate for one minute about summoning Lupin to 
> his office.  Snape also feels quite comfortable glaring at Lupin 
and 
> acting up (ridiculing Neville) in Snape's presence.  He also thinks 
> nothing of criticizing Lupin to Dumbledore in the presence of 
Percy, 
> and he does it again when he substitutes for Lupin and criticizes 
him 
> in front of the DADA class.
> 
> Snape probably wouldn't do those things to someone he feared or 
even 
> respected.  I mean, I can't imagine Snape summoning Moody like that 
> unless Snape was on fire.
> 
> That Moody . . . Moody chills Snape right to the bone, doesn't he?  
> Snape doesn't dare display open hostility toward Moody like he does 
> toward the other DADA teachers.  
> 
> And in GoF, Snape changes abruptly on the staircase when Moody 
shows 
> up.  Snape is ordering Filch around and snapping at Filch.  But 
when 
> Moody arrives, "Snape stops talking abruptly."  A vein "flickered 
> horribly on Snape's greasy temple."  The normally-articulate Snape 
> starts speaking in incomplete sentences.  Snape uses a soft voice, 
> a "voice of forced calm" and speaks through clenched teeth.  Then 
> Snape retreats, saying "I think I will go back to bed."  
> 
> The comparison between Snape's conduct with Moody versus Lupin 
> suggests that Snape isn't the least bit afraid of Lupin, I'd say.
 
But - it wasn't *real* Moody. It was a DE called Bartholomeus Crouch. 
Snape's DE mark revealed that or did it? Maybe Snape thought Moody 
had some *other* method to activate it? (Would make catching DEs 
easier, wouldn't it, making them think you're one of them). Moody 
indeed.. Hm - Did Snape tell Dumbledore about "Moody" in his office? 
Did McGonagall tell Dumbledore about "Moody" transfiguring Draco 
Malfoy? (Would the *real* Moody have *kicked* the boy?)