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

[Kathryn Cawte]

No: HPFGUIDX 71623

I think I've attributed this correctly but the point I want to make ddn't
occur to me at the time so I snipped this from someone else's post. Any
misattribution is due to confusion on my part however rather than inaccuracy
on the part of whoever I snipped it from


> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "frumenta" <p_yanna at h...> 
wrote:
 
> The fact that Sev got Remus fired didn't make me feel that much 
> better, it certainly wasn't one of his shiniest moments. However, 
> there are many factors to consider, one of them no doubt the fact 
> that Remus, whatever the circumstances, forgot his Potion.
> 

I will say that I don't think Remus should have left - the situation in
which he forgot the potion was incredibly rare and stressful and I think
after this one mistake he'd be more careful in the future, almost paranoid
even.

However regardless of whether Remus should have lost his job Severus way of
achieving this was unforgivable. He didn't go to Albus and demand that Remus
leave (or at least we have no evidence that he did, he may have I suppose);
he didn't wait for Remus to return and suggest that he was a risk to the
students; he deliberately told the students something which Albus was trying
to keep quiet - bearing in mind the prejudice against werewolves in the WW
this action is unlikely to have just made Remus leave hogwarts but since the
news would be spreading from students to parents it would make it probably
almost impossible for him to find another job. He pretty much did his best
to ruin Remus' life. I hope he did it in a moment of temper after his run in
with the Minister because while still bad I would find that a lot more
forgivable than if it was a calm and calculated move.

Severus is merely a teacher at the school it is Albus' place to decide what
is and isn't an unacceptable risk to the students. Severus was
unprofessional here and if I were Albus I would be very very annoyed at him.

K