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

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No: HPFGUIDX 71620

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "tigerpatronus" 
<tigerpatronus at y...> wrote:
> 
> <snip
> TK: 
> I thought that Snape asked Lupin if Harry got the map *directly 
from 
> the manufacturers* and in this Lupin was right to deny it. Harry 
got 
> it from F&G, of course. Lupin did lie about knowing what it was, 
and I think Lupin also sees a little too much James in Harry, like 
Sirius did, and he reacted to Harry like he would have to James, as 
a follower, as a friend, and an enabler. 
> 

What really bothered me is that Snape is uncharacteristically less 
Snape-like in that scene. Let me explain this. Snape recognises the 
nicknames and the insults. Instead of calling in on Lupin having 
been among those who created the magical object he gives Lupin an 
oportunity to give him a simple answer without letting Harry know. 
As in: "Did you give this to Harry?" "Did you give him this whatever 
it is which probably helped him go to Hogsmeade and risk his life 
that we've been bending over backwards to protect?" Snape lies as 
well, speaking of dark magic as being the reason he called Lupin and 
referring to the creators of the map just as the manufacturers.

Perhaps I'm grasping at straws to see some sort of maturity in Snape 
since he is my absolute favourite character but for once, in that 
scene, he was in the right. And Remus simply didn't appreciate that 
and lost a chance to make some progress with Snape. 

Mim