What if other teachers behaved like Snape?

[Mandy]

No: HPFGUIDX 101552

> It's not clear who wrtoe this:
> Outing someone who has AIDS might be
> necessary to protect others.
> WHAT!? I really hope you don't mean this, because I don't think 
> anyone who has AIDS ~needs~ to be outed unless you know someone is 
>having sex with them and doesn't know they're infected. But I think 
>they were discussing a teacher being outed, and in that case, there 
>is no danger to anyone, even if the teacher did have AIDS.

> Wanda wrote:
> Uh, yes, I did mean this.  My husband coaches a wrestling team - 
> people are scraping their knees, falling on their faces and ending 
> up with bloody noses all the time.  Someone with AIDS has no place 
> in such a situation, and if it turned out that one of the 
> participants was HIV+ he'd have to go, willingly or unwillingly.  
> Sex may be the most high-profile (and emotionally compelling) way 
of  spreading the disease, but it's not the only one.  In Lupin's 
case,  he's in even a worse situation than an AIDS sufferer, because 
when  HE is dangerous, he also loses his rationality and can't stop 
> himself from injuring others.  His ailment is more like temporary 
> insanity than AIDS.



Mandy here:
This is a very hot topic but to bring it back OT Lycanthropy, dispite 
having obvious parrellals with AIDS is a very different situation. 

Lycanthropy is an affliction that turns a man or woman in to a 
ferocious, terrifying un-merciless monster every month.  (Every time 
I write about this I smile at the fact that my husband thinks I turn 
into a ferocious beast once a month too. Anyway.....) FBAWTFT cleary 
states that the preferred pray of the Werewolf is human! Lupin has no 
control over this, with the exception of the Wolfsbane Potion, which 
doesn't stop the transformation but helps him to retain some of his 
human mind. Lupin would kill his best friend, James, Sirius, Harry or 
anyone else who got near him as a human if he had half the chance.  I 
wouldn't be surprised if Lupin hasn't killed in his Werewolf state in 
the past. Poor Lupin, as much as we all love him, cannot control his 
Werewolf state; it's his tragedy, his cross to bare. 

Personally, as much as I love Lupin, if I had kids I would never! 
allow them to be taught by a Werewolf, even if DD swore by him.

Cheers Mandy