Coming around to ESE!Lupin

[bookraptor11]

No: HPFGUIDX 73119

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "darrin_burnett" 
<bard7696 at a...> wrote(snipping to the Snape bit):
> I don't totally exonerate Snape here, either. Why didn't he bring 
> the potion with him when he went to the Shrieking Shack? If his 
goal 
> was, as has been alleged, to save the kids from Sirius Black and 
his 
> werewolf ally, why not bring the thing that would make the werewolf 
> harmless??
> 
> Even if his goal was  to capture Black and Lupin and saving the 
kids 
> was just something he had to do while he was there, it makes no 
> sense that he would forget the potion. I mean, making the werewolf 
> harmless would have made it a LOT easier to capture Black and Lupin 
> and then make it back to the castle with them in tow.
> 
> The only excuse I can think of is that the Potion must be drunk 
> within so long after it is made, or it becomes useless. "You should 
> drink that straightaway," is a clue to that. 
> 
> At the very least, I think he's reckless as hell.
> 
> Darrin
> - See? I can be convinced. :)

Me:

I think Snape is trying to relive the prank in the shrieking shack. 
He's hoping Lupin will change, run amuk, only this time he, Snape, 
will be the one to subdue him and save the children, instead of 
someone saving him.  In addition, he will also have captured and 
escaped murderer, saving Harry from two people who would have harmed 
him. It wouldn't be as impressive if Lupin was like a tame doggie 
because of the potion.

I think Snape is still deeply embarassed from being rescued at all, 
though the fact that it's James Potter makes it so much worse. This 
is his way to released from the life debt and prove that he doesn't 
need anyone's help.

Donna