Potions and checks (was Re: Fear of Lupin irrational? )(Was: Sexuality

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No: HPFGUIDX 119606


> > > catkind:   
> > > But if that is the scenario, doesn't it make Dumbledore guilty 
> of gross negligence? At the very least there should have been a
>  double-check on Lupin taking the potion. 
> > > 
> > > Mind you, Dumbledore is pretty reckless in general. 
> > 
> > Potioncat:
> > The double check may have been that Snape would both brew 
> the potion  and see that Lupin got it.  Of course, on that one 
> evening he takes  it to Lupin, sees the map and forgets it just like 
> Lupin did.<
> 
> Pippin:
> Or Snape knew that the goblet of potion, which he advised Lupin 
> to drink "directly" earlier in the story, would have  broken down or 
> evaporated by the time he caught up with Lupin. It smokes, so 
> apparently it's not very stable. He does inform Lupin that he's 
> forgotten to take it. Lupin's failure to react to this information is 
> very strange, and would certainly account for Snape's refusal to 
> take him or Sirius seriously about the rat.
> 

Neri:
I doubt Snape thought Lupin's failure to react is strange, because he
didn't really allow Lupin to react. First he cut his words, then he
told him he is going to Azkaban, then he shut his mouth with a spell. 

My guess is that none of the six people in the shack, including Snape
and Lupin himself, remembered that this night would be a full moon
night. Lupin explains that he has to take the potion during the whole
week before the full moon. So he probably looks at the lunar chart,
finds out that the fool moon will be rising late at night this month,
and then starts taking the potion seven days before. Each evening
Lupin takes his cup from Snape and nothing unusual happens. Then both
Lupin and Snape, in their excitement, lose count and forget that this
is the seventh night. Both of them don't act in the Shack as if a
transformation is due any minute.

However, I do think it was Lupin's responsibility and I agree that he
is too dangerous around children. I think Lupin himself agrees with
this or he wouldn't have resigned. This is Lupin's tragedy, and why
his character is deep and fascinating. Making him ESE would completely
spoil this whole effect, because ESE!Lupin wouldn't care much who he
bites by mistake.   

Neri