Snape's to blame (WAS Lupin's resignation and the legacy of hate)

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 99784

> Now Olivier
> 
> For once, I won't try to defend Lupin, the poor werewolf has 
already  enough on his shoulder with this new revelation that he 
thought Lily  was a kind woman. No, I want to step up in the 
Snape debate.
> 
> I think it is impossible to state that Snape's behavior the night 
of  the Shrieking Shack is sensible. I'm not saying Lupin, Black 
or Harry  are better, I'm just concentrating on Snape's role.
> 
> Snape is a teacher at Hogwarts and a Head of House. His first 
and  foremost duty is too protect students from harm, whatever 
the  circumstances.<snip> Snape should have acted as quickly 
and  forcefully as possible to neutralize the two potential threats 
and get  HRH out as quickly as he could. Far from doing that, he 
took the time  to tease and mock his old rivals and his least 
favorites students.
> 
> I expect Pippin will argue that everything I wrote about Snape is 
true  about Lupin: he knew he was going to transform and did 
nothing to  protect HRH, thereby exposing them to great dangers 
and well deserving  his resignation. But I see nothing Lupin has 
done that night that Snape  hasn't done. So if the scene is to be 
hold against Lupin as a proof of  his failure to link his actions 
with their consequences, the same rationale should be used 
against Snape.
> 
> Lupin at least did resign.


Pippin:
Oh, Snape was an idiot. I'll grant you that. ESE!Lupin set a trap 
for him and he walked into it. Again. What did Snape tell Harry in  
OOP? "Fools who wear their hearts proudly on their sleeves, 
who cannot control their emotions, who wallow in sad memories 
and allow themselves to be provoked this easily--weak people, 
in other words--they stand no chance against [the Dark Lord's] 
powers!" 


 ESE!Lupin  couldn't afford to have Sirius and Pettigrew 
questioned together--certainly not in front of a calm, rational,
let's put two and two together Snape. But no matter. ESE!Lupin 
knew exactly what to say to get Snape to behave in a completely 
unreasonable fashion. Snape-baiting was his favorite spectator 
sport in the good old days, after all. He'd been trying all year to 
provoke Snape into a display of temper, what with the boggart 
and the Map, and in the Shack he finally managed it. Most 
gratifying.

We don't know whether Snape  offered to resign or not. But  
Lupin's is the only  voluntary resignation Dumbledore has  
accepted. Why?

Pippin
who can't wait for the film either