Lupin's resentment : An inside to Snape's resentment

[jmgarciaiii]

No: HPFGUIDX 94227

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> 
wrote:

> Neville went to pieces in his very first potions class, before 
> Snape had done anything to him. I think his great fear of Snape 
> may have something to do with his mysterious past. That doesn't 
> mean Snape is guilty.

[snip]

> But we were talking about Lupin. You understand that it's wrong 
> for Snape to humiliate Neville in front of the whole class. But 
you 
> don't see anything wrong or discourteous about Lupin doing the 
> same thing to Snape? 

In order for me to find anything wrong or discourteous about what 
Lupin did, I would first have to accept the premise it was "the same 
thing." Which is a premise I regretfully cannot accept.
 
> If the point of the exercise was to help Neville deal with his fear
> of Snape, or to discourage Snape's bullying, then it  didn't work. 

IMO, the point of the exercise was to help Neville deal with a 
boggart.

> Lupin is too shrewd a judge of humanity, and Snape, not to have 
> anticipated such an outcome. IMO,  Neville was  heartlessly 
> manipulated into a situation that only made things worse for him. 

I don't see it that way, but as always I am open to correction on 
this assertion tht Lupin heartlessly manipulated Neville.

AFAICT, Neville's boggart was Snape (we can freely hypothesize why 
that may have been, but that's afield of the point) and the boggart 
had to be "disarmed" by making it funny, i.e., by changing it into 
something worthy of ridicule. Having sad that, I don't know how a 
Boggart!Snape could be managed without holding it up to ridicule 
and, therefore, making Lupin seem (in the eyes of some) showing 
professional DIScourtesy towards Snape.

-Joe in SoFla