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

[huntergreen_3]

No: HPFGUIDX 106807

HunterGreen previously:
> 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. <<

HunterGreen:
That was what I meant, that Harry and Ron expected him to help, and 
when he argued, their rebuff was "You're the defense against the dark 
arts teacher!" Again, no *official* duty, or *written* duty, but 
still occasionally part of the job. Obviously the other teachers only 
asked him to find the chamber because *he* had been going around 
claiming he knew where it was, and they wanted to get rid of him.

Mel:
> 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.

HunterGreen:
And I agree with you. However, in the case of an intruder in the 
school -- an escaped convict(!) in fact -- wouldn't a typical school 
be more inclined to call the police rather than search the school 
themselves? Obviously Hogwarts is different, since all the teachers 
have wands and are trained with them (and the school governs itself 
for the most part), but in a 'muggle' school, would you really give 
each teacher a gun and ask them to go wandering around corners 
looking for a deranged murderer? (and actually, with a wand or not, 
*I* wouldn't be too thrilled about doing that).  My original point 
was that Snape is protecting Harry out of a duty to the school rather 
than a specific life-debt. (which is just my opinion, of course)