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

[fiondavhar]

No: HPFGUIDX 99808



> Pippin:

>  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.

Bonny: As I recall, in OoTP Lupin was trying not to watch James and 
Sirius torture Snape. He certainly didn't take part, and seemed 
displeased, in a passive way, that the others were tormenting Snape. 

Pippin:

 He'd been trying all year to 
> provoke Snape into a display of temper, what with the boggart 
> and the Map...

Bonny:

But Lupin had no control over the Boggart, except to suggest a way t 
omake Snape comical. Neville could just as easily have been terrified 
of flobberworms, and dressed one of them in his grandmothers clothes. 
As for the map, it insulted Snape before Lupin even entered the 
office. Snape called Lupin because he suspected a connection, 
probably based on the nicknames. However, Lupin did not influence the 
map in any way, aside from his 15 year old personality still 
instilled in it. 

> and in the Shack he finally managed it. Most 
> gratifying.

Snape has shown himself to be irrational and fly of the handle 
whenever confronted with anything to do with James and Sirius. Simply 
seeing Lupin with Black did the trick (and kind of understandably, it 
would look suspicious, and Snape had been accepting Lupin, even if it 
was reluctant). Pissing someone off simply by being there is hardly 
gratifying. But that is only my take on things, I just don't buy ESE!
Lupin. But who knows, maybe I will be prooved wrong. 

Bonny