How did Sirius lure Severus into the Willow? (was: James the Berk?)

[melclaros]

No: HPFGUIDX 106791

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "huntergreen_3" > HunterGreen:
> Well, that's why I said 'unwritten'. Lockhart was turned to help 
save 
> Ginny in CoS (to which he does indeed complain that it wasn't in 
the 
> job description, but it was expected of him anyway). 

Mel:
It most certianly was NOT expected of him. If he'd been halfway 
competent it would have been, surely, but what actually happened 
there was the Snape-McGonnogal tag team approach of simply getting 
him the hell out of everyone's way.

It was only Harry and Ron (duh) who honestly (?) expected Lockhart 
to help.

Hunter: 
> all the teachers were called upon to help get the troll out of the 
> school. In PoA, Dumbledore calls upon the teachers to search the 
> school for Sirius. (and Sirius himself later tells Harry 'it was 
> brave of you not to run for a teacher...' in the shrieking 
shack).  


It is *always* any teacher's job to assure or at least help in the 
assurance of student safety. That is what you saw in the troll 
episode and the situation with searching the school for Sirius 
Black. There isn't a school I know of (and based on canon, Hogwarts 
is no exception) that would allow teachers to sit back and do 
nothing while students were threatened in any way, whether it be 
some disaster, say fire in the dorms, or an intruder on campus and 
the like.
The fact that Snape is Head of House only ADDS to his 
responsibility. It's Him who gets the owls if little Jemima 
Slytherin gets injured. He's also seen to be something of 
Dumbledore's left-hand man--again a large responsibility.



Melpomene