Snape, Lupin, and the map

[jdr0918]

No: HPFGUIDX 96082

<<<In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Tim Regan" wrote:...Again it 
feels like Snape knows who Moony is...
Now, why doesn't Snape reply "No Lupin, I think I'll investigate the 
parchment further"? 
...I'd assumed that Lupin's remark "I need a word about my vampire 
essay" was designed to stop Snape taking it further. 
...So what does Lupin have over Snape in this altercation? Why 
doesn't Snape keep the map?>>>

The Sergeant Majorette says

Snape knows who Lupin is. What he doesn't know is that the parchment 
is a map (until he goes to Lupin's office to bring him his wolfsbane, 
just before the big Shrieking Shack scene).

Snape tried several ways to find out what the parchment was, with no 
result until he told it his name ("I, Severus Snape, master of this 
school...")

Lupin's just messing with Snape. Everybody probably whispered about 
Snape being a vampire when he was in school, and how annoyingly 
ironic to realize that nobody (as far as he knew) had gotten the hint 
from the werewolf essay, but that the vampire essay would inevitably 
start up the whispering again about Snape himself. Remember the Drag!
Snape boggart? Lupin can be a real b****-- no, wait, let me rephrase 
that. Our Remus has some sharp fangs any time of the month.

--JDR