Snape and the Boggart class

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

No: HPFGUIDX 47435

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Wanda Sherratt" <wsherratt3338 at r...> 
wrote:

> the Chapter 7 scene where Lupin is about to teach the students 
> how to fight the Boggart in the wardrobe in the staffroom. (snip)
> - the room is empty, except for Snape.  I wonder, first of all,
> what he's doing there, all  alone - reading?  Thinking? (snip) How
> do people interpret his remark to Lupin, as he  prepares to leave:
> "I'd rather not witness this"? 

It always seems to me that Snape knew that Lupin was going to bring 
the third-year Gryffindor DADA class to the staffroom at that time 
to use the Boggart there -- It always seems to me that Snape was 
lying in wait for them, hoping that his improvised vicious remarks 
would rattle Lupin (and the kids, of course) enough to make the 
class be a fiasco.

Canon for Snape's attitude: "His eyes were glittering and there was 
a nasty sneer playing around his mouth." It is my understanding that 
(except for the mysterious interchange with Dumbledore at end of 
GoF), that 'glitter' is what Snape's eyes do when he seizes a chance 
to exercise his malice. (And 'flash' is rage and 'gleam' is pride. 
And I admired Acire's theory that Snape has gemstones in his eye 
sockets instead of eyes.) 

Canon for Snape knowing about the Boggart class: "Boggarts like dark, 
enclosed spaces," said Professor Lupin. ... "This one moved in 
yesterday afternoon, and I asked the headmaster if the staff would 
leave it to give my third years some practice." The headmaster must 
have made some announcement to the staff (or put up a memo on the 
wall or spoken to each of them individually), asking them please 
don't destroy this Boggart with -- leave it for Lupin's third years. 

FANTASTIC BEASTS was a required book for Harry's first year even tho' 
he didn't have CoMC until third year. My theory is that FB was 
intended as a textbook for the first year DADA students, but Quirrel 
and Lockhart were such pathetic excuses for teachers that they didn't 
get to the dangerous beasts until third year. One evidence: in PoA 
they cover the same beasts in the same order as in FB. Another 
evidence: when Snape said he expected FIRST-YEARS to know all about 
werewolves, that might not have been a random nasty remark but a 
reference to werewolves being in the normal first-year curriculum. 

But in that case, Lupin should have been teaching the Boggart not 
merely to four classes (the third-years of each House), but to twelve 
classes (the first-years and second-years as well).