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

[Irene Mikhlin]

No: HPFGUIDX 71437



Kirstini wrote:

> 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! 

Except in the Map scene, when he courteously, pleasantly and oh-ever-so
maturely helps Harry to make a fool of Snape.
Also I don't consider an uninvited usage of someone's first name as
a  polite thing to do.

Irene