[HPforGrownups] Is Snape unfair with House Points? (WAS Re: Teacher Ratin...

[Ladi lyndi]

No: HPFGUIDX 56907

--- backstagemystic wrote:
> Had not Sirius been there in his animagus form
> to fend-off Lupin when 
> he transformed into a werewolf, it could have
> been disastrous for one 
> of the trio.


Lynn:

Ahh, but had Sirius and Peter Pettigrew not been
there, Lupin would most certainly have remembered
to take his potion and therefore wouldn't have
been a threat.  

Snape didn't see Lupin as a threat because he was
worried about the danger to the kids as a
werewolf.  Snape doesn't like Lupin from school
days and it has carried over.  Had Lupin not been
a werewolf, I believe Snape would have searched
for another reason to either prevent/get rid of
Lupin.  That being said, and to be fair to Snape,
he might have considered Lupin a danger because
of Sirius, a point which Lupin himself
acknowledges when Lupin doesn't tell about the
other secret passages.

Snape's anger had to have grown over the year. 
As you say, Snape is imparting all his pearls of
wisdom and is still an unpopular teacher.  Lupin
comes in and becomes a popular teacher, at least
the POV we're privy too portrays both these
opinions and granted they are a bit biased. ;) 
Lupin shows himself to be creative as a teacher
as well, something Snape really didn't like given
the boggart incident.  Personally, if Snape
hadn't commented on Neville before leaving the
room, I don't think we would have seen Grandma
Snape.  Lupin was teaching Neville how to deal
with a bully.  I wonder though, how Snape must
have felt knowing that the thing Neville fears
most is himself.  

I also wonder why, in the previous two years, no
teacher had taken Hermione aside and told her
that everyone knows that she'll know the answer
but she really needs to give the other students
the opportunity to answer questions themselves.

Lynn
(who would really have liked to see a Dueling
Club with Snape and Lupin doing the demonstrating.)

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