The Shrieking Shack-did Snape have ulterior motives?

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 85992

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Angel Moules
<angelofthenorth at c...> wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-11-22 at 17:52, jwcpgh wrote: 
> 
> So I was thinking about Tonks's wonderful defense of Lupin posts, 
> and a thought occurred to me.  (Paramedics weren't necessary but it 
> was a near thing.)  The night of the Shrieking Shack incident in 
> PoA, Snape, as we know, appears in the Shack.  He tells the group 
> that he found out what was happening when he went into Remus's 
> office to give him his monthly wolfsbane potion and saw the 
> Marauder's Map.  (PoA p.358 US). As soon as he grasps the situation, 
> he goes tearing off to the Shack.   But wait a minute-what about the 
> potion?  Why didn't Snape bring it with him?  
> 
> Angel adds:
> 
> I'm sure that the potion has to be drunk before it stops smoking. It's
> earlier in the story. We don't know what makes it stop smoking, but it
> might have become ineffectual by the time that it gets to the shack. 
> 
> I'm guessing that he saw the non-smoking goblet, and panicked. (need to
> re-read PoA)	
> 
> AotN


Not to mention that Snape would have had to run out of Lupin's office
with the smoking goblet in his hands and keep it from spilling as he
ran. But he must have set it down to read the map and the thought that
the "murderer" was in the Shack put the potion out of his mind. He
also probably thought that Lupin was a traitor trying to help Black
get into Hogwarts. There was no possible way for him to know their
real motives or the real situation.

Carol, who also needs to reread that scene