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

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 94690

Jen: 
> On the heels of what happened the night before with
> Serverus' "severe disappointment", I'm very doubtful that Snape's
> motive was *primarily* the students safety.

>Vickey:
> How about a fear for his own safety?... He was almost attacked and 
would have been killed by Lupin as a boy...that is going to cause 
him to have some prejudices based in fear about werewolves, one in 
particular.  He was probably uncomfortable being around Lupin, 
especially given how close he had to work with him.  And fear is not 
always logical, even though it wouldn't have been Lupin's fault when 
they were kids, Severus will still resent him for it.
> 

Jen: Part of my response from post #94597 got snipped in the course 
of this thread, but I think it's a very important point about 
Snape's actions (so, I'll just print it again <g>). I think it holds 
true for *whatever* motivation Snape had the day he told the 
Slytherin students about Lupin.

Snape, even if he was extremely fearful for his own or the students 
safety, did not to our knowledge take one of these actions 
before 'outing' Lupin:

A) Snape going to Lupin prior to outing him and say, "hey, I'm 
giving you a chance to leave first. If you don't, I'm telling 
everyone you're a werewolf"; 

B) Snape going to Dumbledore with basically the same message--"take 
this chance to let Lupin go or I'm going to make his miserable life 
more miserable"; or 

C) Snape talking to faculty and staff, then going to Dumbledore 
instead of the *students* for gosh sakes.

Any one of these steps would tell me Snape's primary interest is 
getting the werewolf out of the school for *whatever* reason. What 
he did is revenge. Not unmotivated revenge--no doubt there--but 
revenge all the same. 

Jen, who will gladly apologize to Snape if we find out he gave Lupin 
or Dumbledore an ultimatum prior to his actions ;).