McGonagall and Lupin's reaction to Harry's story (Was: It's over, Snape is evil

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> But I'm getting offtrack, sorry! I want to know if there's more to the
> mass rejection of Snape by his fellow Order members than meets the
> eye. Can they really suddenly think that he's always been evil after
> all the risks he's taken for the Order? Is there more to this scene,
> which strikes me as a false note in the narrative, than just a shared
> mistrust of Snape by both sides and a very bad position for Snape if
> he wants to continue working with the Order? 
> 
> Was anyone else bothered by this scene? Did anyone else feel that
> McGonagall and Lupin, at least, were acting out of character?
> 
> Carol, hoping that Lupin will somehow learn about the Unbreakable Vow
> and realize what would have happened to Dumbledore, Draco, and
> possibly Harry if Snape had died

Momy424 responds:

I would have to think that the shock would be more than enough reason 
for them to react as they did.  Think about it, Dumbledore, who is 
touted as the Greatest Wizard of his time has just been ruthlessly 
murdered by one of his own teachers, one that everyone must have at one 
time or another had some misgivings about and has fled the scene with 
other DE's and a student who had been "seemingly" about to commit the 
very same murder.  I am not sure anyone's reaction would have been to 
keep defending Snape under these circumstances.

As for the other comment about Lupin automatically thinking Sirius 
guilty of the murder of Pettigrew and the cause for Lily and James' 
death's, even Dumbledore pointed out he believed him guilty at the time 
cause he was the only one known to be the secret keeper so of course 
from all accounts who would believe otherwise, and of course three of 
your best friends are dead and their son scarred and in hiding, how can 
that trauma not make you feel doubt over the innocense of someone wiht 
a family past of being on the dark side?

I have re-read the book over and over and I felt nothing but pity and 
sorrow for them all in the momnets when Harry tells them of 
Dumbledore's death, cause in Jo's writing I could feel the anguish and 
the shock to have lost a friend and to some a father figure.