Why Snape's worst memory? Culpable Lupin

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No: HPFGUIDX 137490

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "unicorn_72" <Unicorn_72 at y...> 
wrote:
 
> But, Lupin as far as we know isn't evil, but, isn't he culpable for 
> not stopping his friends from abusing another student at school be 
> him prefect or not? I mean, I know its said that well, Snape and 
> James hated each other, maybe they both has tag team hexing matches 
> down the corridors of Hogwarts, but, in that memory Snape wasn't 
> doing anything to them. So....If Snape is culpable for bad actions, 
> isn't Lupin culpable for his neglect of duties as a prefect? To me, 
> his actions make him just as much a party to what James and Sirius 
> were doing.



I think in private Lupin did indeed stand up to his friends because 
Sirius says that Lupin made them feel ashamed of themselves 
sometimes. I don't believe it was fear of his friends' censure that 
made Lupin not intervene but rather that he may have seen it as 
disloyal to criticise them in front of a crowd of onlookers. In 
becoming Animagi, Lupin felt they had shown him a loyalty beyond his 
wildest dreams and he owed them.  Even though I don't agree with his 
lack of action but he was afterall only fifteen.  This scene made me 
even more sympathetic to Lupin, not less because it shows he isn't a 
saint. Thank Merlin!

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