Remus, Severus, mind-games? (Was: Snape: The fact that he exists)

[Kirstini]

No: HPFGUIDX 71381

AnnL wrote: 
>I think Remus' behavior in PoA comes across more as mind-game. 
Refering to Severus by his given name when he's not reciprocating 
doesn't indicate intimacy, it's putting Severus in the one-down 
position.> 

To which bibphile responded:
> I still think he was trying to bury the hatchet.  I don't think it 
was meant as a put down.  I think Remus regrets allowing James ans  
Sirius to torment Snape in school.  I don't think he's intentionally 
> insult Snape now, just because of old "bad feelings" between them 
or because Snape is resentful of his presence.  I think he can kind 
of understand snape's resentment and want to make Snape let go of 
it, noot to make it stronger.>

And me:
I agree wholeheartedly with bibphile. The Remus we know of PoA 
regards his teenage years with something akin to horror - the fact 
that he could have eaten someone "still haunts" him. Snape's little 
excursion down to the Shrieking Shack as a teenager put him in more 
danger from the werewolf than any other student that we know about - 
he glimpsed Lupin, remember? Why on earth would Lupin be 
playing "mind games" with this continual reminder of his latent 
nature? Instead, he speaks courteously, pleasantly and maturely, and 
neutralises any threat posed by Snape, and any residual guilt of his 
own - not being the sort of man to carry a grudge cross-
generationally! <waves to Marina, whose "Anti-hero Archetype" filk 
has been circling my head like a malevolant Thestral today> 
Kirstini