[HPforGrownups] Re: Support for the ESE Lupin theory! (potion)

[Charme]

No: HPFGUIDX 123909



pippin_999 <foxmoth at qnet.com> wrote:


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.:)

Charme:

That Snape made extra potion the time before and, to your point, knew how much potion was left in the cauldron tends to make one wonder why Snape didn't bring the potion along with him to the Shack. If we follow this course, this means the potion can sit for some period of time and still be viable thereby possibly being at odds with a prior post you made about it perhaps "breaking down" before Snape could get it to the Shack.  To me,  we really don't know (and aren't told) enough about how it's created to make that assumption.

You quote Hermoine correctly, and it's darn right that Lupin didn't take his potion.  Possible  questions:

* Did he not take the potion because he got swept up in seeing Sirius/Peter on the map with the Trio prior to the whole affair in the Shack itself - remember, Sirius is supposedly guilty and Peter is supposed to be dead and *they are with Harry Potter*;

* Did he intentionally not take it because he's really ESE!Lupin;

* Did he not get to take his potion because Snape conveniently avoided giving it to him?

I think it's a combination of the first and the last, myself. Snapey's admittedly *seen* the map and one look at it apparently told him all he "needed to know" - which is probably Snape's assumption from the beginning of PoA that Lupin was helping Sirius. Why not let Lupin transfigure into a werewolf and attack his own friend  and as a bonus, blame Lupin in the process for a lapse in safety precautions? And lo and behold, Snape will have outwitted the DADA teacher -the very job he wants and covets. What irony THAT would be from Snape's perspective, huh? Snape probably figures what's good enough for him (in the case of James saving him) is good enough for Sirius....and if Snape's statements about the Dementors  and watching them kiss Sirius and his loss of his emotional self control when Sirius escapes on Buckbeak is any indication, he fully expected Sirius to be dead one way or the other by the end of that night. As DD said, Snape suffered "a severe disappointment" when Sirius
 escaped. 

Charme

 











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