Snape's business was Re: What if other teachers behaved like Snape?

[Wanda Sherratt]

No: HPFGUIDX 101759

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "veiledmyst" <veiledmyst at c...> 
wrote:
> , "Wanda Sherratt" <
> > wsherratt3338 at r...> wrote:
> 
> > Either way, I just can't see how it was Snape's business to 
share 
> that 
> > information with the general Hogwarts population, especially 
when 
> he didn't 
> > do so all year until after he was knocked out by the students he 
> disliked the 
> > most, and who were clearly supportive of Lupin.  Then he 
couldn't 
> wait to 
> > share the news.

Not to be a stickler here, but that was actually written by somebody 
else responding to MY post, which was substantially in agreement 
with you.
> 
> I think it is Snape's business in that this is twice now that he 
has 
> witnessed Lupin being a danger to the school.  If Lupin didn't 
take 
> his potion once how does he know it won't happen again.

I think it's also his business because he's more than just a snoopy 
bystander here.  He is actively participating in Project Lupin, 
because he is making the potion that enables Lupin to stay at 
Hogwarts and function relatively normally.  Dumbledore would have 
had to discuss this with Snape in advance, and get his agreement to 
the situation.  I think that gives him some rights in the matter, 
and he seems to think so too.  Also some responsibility.  Objections 
on the grounds of safety would have been answered with the wolfsbane-
potion solution, but when that precaution failed, what could 
Dumbledore reasonably say?  "Yes, what I said wouldn't happen did 
happen, but we got lucky and nobody was hurt.  I'm sure we can rely 
on our luck holding if it happens again."  I wouldn't accept that 
argument, and I'm not as choleric as Snape.  I think Snape's way of 
getting rid of Lupin was very nasty, but I don't object to the fact 
that he DID engineer his departure, only the method.  I think Snape 
would figure that Lupin's accident broke the deal with Dumbledore, 
and he was entitled to expect Lupin's removal.  Unfortunately, you 
can't rely on Snape for charity or sensitivity, hence the brutality 
of the method employed.
> 
Wanda