Support for the ESE Lupin theory! (potion)

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 123892


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Charme" 
<dontask2much at y...> wrote:

> >
> Charme:
> 
> While your thought is one view, Pippin, there can easily be 
another.  First  some canon from PoA:
> 
> "I've just been to your office, Lupin. You forgot to take your 
potion  tonight, so I took a gobletful along. And very lucky I did... 
lucky for me,  I mean. Lying on your desk was a certain map. One 
glance at it told me all I  needed to know. I saw you running 
along this passageway and out of sight." 
> "Severus --" Lupin began, but Snape overrode him...."
> 
> Ok, so how could Snape know Lupin "forgot to take his potion"  
when he "took  a gobletful along"? Along to where? Lupin's 
office?  Snapey Poo is better than I thought: he must be able to 
predict the future.  Plus Snape overrode  what Lupin tried to say 
after that lovely, apparently Seer-like explanation  Snape gave. I 
mean, the last time we saw Lupin take the potion, Harry was in 
attendance and Snape *brought* it to Lupin's office for him to 
take. Uhm and  how did Lupin blow off Snape's announcement 
anyway? He said 1 word: Severus. 
> (Don't shoot the messenger - that's what the canon states.) 
Seems to me that  maybe someone should be trying to figure out 
how Snape knew in advance of  bringing Lupin his potion that 
Lupin'd fogotten to take it......
> 

Pippin:
Um, because Snape, being Snape, knew exactly how much 
potion was in the cauldron after Lupin took his last dose and 
there wasn't any less there? 

I quote Hermione, "He didn't take his potion tonight! He's not 
safe!"  She sees no reason to doubt Snape's word, and no 
reason to think that an underdose of potion will be enough to 
protect her. But Hermione takes her cue from the adults she 
trusts. IMO, because Lupin didn't seem alarmed to hear that he 
hadn't taken his potion, she wasn't either, until Lupin began to 
transform. That's what I mean by blowing it off.

Of course there can be other points of view. That's the fun of it.:)

Pippin