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

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 94698

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Jen Reese" 
<stevejjen at e...> wrote:

> 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. 

I'm not sure I understand. The staff already knew that Lupin was 
a werewolf, and there is a werewolf registry. Any future 
employer would be able to find out, either by checking the 
registry or asking for references.

There are two different accounts of why Lupin quit. Hagrid says 
he resigned "First thing this mornin'. Says he can't risk it 
happenin' again."

Lupin says that Snape "accidentally" let slip that he was a 
werewolf, as if he would have stayed on if the news hadn't gotten 
out. But then he says that the parents are right, it is too 
dangerous for him to work at Hogwarts. Lupin himself told 
Hagrid that he couldn't risk  it happening again. If he would have 
resigned anyway without pressure from the parents, then Snape 
did no harm. If he wouldn't seriously have considered resigning 
without pressure from the parents, then Snape was right.

  We don't know whether Lupin, who resigned "first thing 
this morning" did so before or after Snape made his "accidental" 
announcement. Either way Snape's announcement did not force 
Lupin's resignation. Lupin running loose on the grounds forced 
his resignation. The only thing telling the students did was make 
it harder for Lupin to reconsider his decision to quit. How is that 
revenge?

 If anyone was damaged by Snape's announcement, it was 
Dumbledore, since he's the one who looked bad for hiring a 
careless werewolf.


Pippin
who doesn't buy for a momen that Lupin was so distressed 
about Peter that he forgot about his potion. Calm and collected 
the whole time, he is.