Quick question re: Lupin's resignation . . .

[sbursztynski]

No: HPFGUIDX 107532

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "tookishgirl_111" 
<tookishgirl_111 at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "huntergreen_3" 
> <patientx3 at a...> wrote:
> > > Ari wrote:
> > > I'm not so sure you can say Lupin put off taking it. He takes it
> > > when Snape brings it to him. If Snape doesn't bring the potion until
> > > dusk, he can't take it until dusk.
> 
> <snip> 
> 
> > PoA, chpt 19, p358 (paperback)
> > "I've just been to your office, Lupin. You forgot to take your
> > potion tonight, so I took a gobletful along." <<
> 
> <snip>
> 
> See, that's the way I saw it...Snape is the only one who can make the 
> potion and so he is the one who brings it to Lupin.  And I have a 
> feeling that Snape may, at least unconsciously, bring Lupin his 
> potion closer to the edge of the time limit hoping Lupin would 
> transform and thus get sacked.
> 
> I've always had a question concerning the quote above, "...I brought 
> a gobletful along...", where is it?  Did Snape leave it in Lupin's 
> office or drop it in his rush to catch Black?
> 
> I've also been wary of Lupin's comment of "As long as I take it in 
> the week preceeding the full moon...".  If this is true then why 
> didn't Snape give it to him earlier?  I admit I also wonder why Lupin 
> didn't remind Snape to give it to him sooner - does he dislike 
> talking with Snape that much or did he remind Snape and then Snape 
> blew him off (which would play into my original idea of Snape 
> purposely pusking the time limit)?
> 
> Tooks - who will continue to defend Lupin to the possible ESE end

Sue:

But don't forget, the first time we see Snape bringing Lupin the potion, Snape 
adds that he has made an entire cauldronful in case Lupin needs some more. 
This sounds helpful to me. And if Snape WAS bringing a goblet of potion 
when he realised what was going on, he surely didn't know about it till he got 
there, so again he was being helpful. Then no doubt he forgot about the 
potion as he was rushing off to catch up with Sirius - apart from the difficulty 
of carrying a goblet of sloshing liquid with him! Well, he must have  forgotten, 
mustn't he? Who'd want to confront a werewolf AND  his dangerous friend? 
Yes, I think he was  trying to help - not necessarily for Lupin's sake but, I 
suggest, the children's. After all, no matter how much Snape hates Lupin, he 
surely can't want a raging wolf running around biting the students? 
Dumbledore wouldn't be too impressed either, if Snape deliberately avoided 
giving the potion to Lupin.