[HPforGrownups] Re: Lupin's resentment : An inside to Snape's resentment

[MadameSSnape at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 94316

In a message dated 3/28/2004 11:34:30 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
dumbledore11214 at yahoo.com writes:

Yes, Snape did not stop bullying Neville at all, but if even once 
when Snape has a go at him, Neville can imagine dear Severus in a  
dress and laugh, if his confidence increased at least tiny-tiny bit, 
Lupin achieved his purpose.

Snape certainly got him good, poor man still could not find a job at 
the end of OoP.
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Sherrie here:

Unfortunately, it's fairly evident that Lupin did NOT achieve his intent, if 
it was to shore up Neville's backbone when dealing with Snape.  If anything, 
Neville's behavior and reactions in Snape's class are worse in the following 
books, even while his confidence in DADA improves.

As for Lupin not being able to find a job, methinks that has more to do with 
Umbridge than with Snape.  Was it not she who pushed through the law making it 
almost impossible for werewolves to find work?  Obviously, this happened 
sometime AFTER PoA, since it obviously wasn't illegal for Dumbledore to hire him - 
just a highly questionable act, in the view of some.

Sure, Snape outed him to the Slytherins - but he didn't exactly take out an 
ad in the Prophet, now, did he?

My two Knuts - as ever, YMMV.

Sherrie
"Unless history lives in our present, it has no future." 
PRESERVE OUR CIVIL WAR BATTLEFIELDS!


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