Lupin's resentment : An inside to Snape's resentment

[jmgarciaiii]

No: HPFGUIDX 94774

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" <willsonkmom at m...> 
wrote:
> Or, Lupin can contact Snape and/or DD via floo and say, "I need 
the 
> potion now, There's an emergency. We have to get to the Shrieking 
> Shack!" Then maybe he goes too or maybe he stays behind.

1- I'd wager that Lupin was preoccupied (whether he should have been 
is matter for debate)
2- Lupin took responsibility for this, by realizing what he had 
done, and rather manfully at that.

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" <willsonkmom at m...> 
wrote:

> Joe wrote:
> >I get the sense that, on some level Lupin has forgiven Snape.
> 
> Potioncat who has successfully cut and paste two posts together.
> I think you have a good point.  I think Lupin was feeling pretty 
> guilty for some of his poor judgement.  JKR has said that Lupin 
goes 
> out of his way to be friendly due to the experiences he's had. So 
it 
> would figure that he would let it go.

IIRC, what JKR said about Lupin is that he's been rejected so often 
that he's willing to do more than perhaps is wise to do. This, 
however, is fundamentally different from the concept of forgiveness. 
That is to say, to "let it go" is more the forget part of forgive-
and-forget.

Snape hates Lupin (I'm not exactly sure why, since canon is silent 
on whatever--besides being the M in MWPP--Lupin may have done to 
Snape back at school) but I am quite confident that, in contrast to 
Sirius, Lupin does not reciprocate.

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" <willsonkmom at m...> 
wrote:

> Interesting, isn't it, that from time to time we see Snape go 
against 
> DD, yet there never seems to be any consequence.  Of course, we 
don't 
> get to sit in at the annual review.

This just made me think back to CoS and DD telling Snape: "Innocent 
until proven guilty, Severus." Might there be even more encoded (in 
a way that Snape and only Snape might understand) in this phrase? 
Might this have to do with how Snape evaded any legal consequence 
for having been a DE?
 
> I'd like to know from JKR what was behind Snape's slip of the 
tongue 
> about Lupin and behind the end of occlumency lessons. But I really 
do 
> think he was sincere in his distrust of Lupin and Black, and that 
it 
> wasn't just spite.


1- I think Snape has too much self-possession, except for those 
moments of rage, to have an accidental "slip of the tongue." A very 
poor habit to have if one is spying on LV and the DEs.

2- If we accept that Snape distrusts Lupin (I agree wholeheartedly 
he distrusts Black) then we must ask why. Because Lupin is a 
werewolf and *only* because of that? If not, what other reason has 
Lupin given Snape for that distrust?

-Joe in SoFla, who's managed to smoosh 3 posts into one