[HPforGrownups] Re: OoP SPOILERS: Worries for Harry? Warning: Long Reply

[Kelly Grosskreutz]

No: HPFGUIDX 58482

> Kelly Grosskreutz continues:
> > I just made a tangential post on this a few minutes ago.  Yes, D
> did screw
> > up here, if nothing else, for being arrogant enough to believe that
> he has
> > all bases covered.  I theorized that part of Snape's job is to help
> D see to
> > the safety of the school, and here he is ignoring the advice of his
> Security
> > Chief.  Lupin *did* know about secret ways into the school that
> very few
> > knew about, ways that D doesn't even seem to be aware are there.
> Snape, in
> > his ranting, tries to alert D to the possibility, but is summarily
> > dismissed.
> >
>
> I innermurk add:
> WHOA WHOA WHOA!!!!!!!!! First of all I don't see DD as being arrogant
> here at all! He has a person in the DADA job that knows what he's
> doing, and has helped to fight with him in the past (the old crowd).
> He has no idea that Sirius is an animagus and neither does Snape.
> What he *does* know is that Snape is seriously predjudiced against
> Lupin, so he has to take everything Snape says about Lupin with a
> grain of salt (or two or three). Now, we don't know that he didn't
> question Lupin a time or two...especially after Black breeched the
> castle security. In fact, I believe he probably did. He has no reason
> to distrust Lupin's word.

Maybe arrogant is a strong word-choice.  I said arrogant because he seems to
believe that with the dementors, Snape, and Lupin (and who knows what other
protections), he thinks everything has been taken care of and no one can get
in the castle.  I agree, only Lupin knows that Sirius is an animagus.  But
Sirius Black *did* get into the castle somehow, breaching all of these
defenses.  Snape gives an explanation how this could have happened.
Granted, Snape is not completely correct, and Snape is doing this mostly for
his own reasons, so I completely understand why D doesn't just jump and say,
"You're right, Severus, I'm going to have a talk with Remus tomorrow, and it
might cost him his job."  And he may have had a talk with Lupin about Sirius
and asked if Lupin had any clue how Sirius could've gotten in.  But we don't
really have any evidence this talk took place.  If this talk did not take
place, I would say D sort of screwed up there, since had he confronted
Remus, Lupin might have confessed his knowledge of the passages and Sirius's
ability.  On the other hand, if D and Lupin did have a talk, and Lupin still
did not confess these things, then I wouldn't be so harsh on D because he
did try to find out what happened, and he can't help it one of his teachers
lied to him (the lie of omission).

Kelly Grosskreutz
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