Favorite Snape Scenes - He's such a lovely professor, no really.

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> vmonte:
> Yes, Lupin has a dangerous and deadly disease. And I will not be 
> surprised to learn that he may have killed someone in the past while 
> a werewolf. But his malady has nothing to do with him being a good 
> teacher or not. 
> 
> I truly believe that Snape is "still" a racist and that he 
> intentionally treats Lupin badly because of what he is.

Maddy:

I think Snape's treatment of Lupin is twofold. I think that while at
Hogwart's he didn't like Lupin because he was friends with James and
Sirius. And when he discovered that Lupin disappeared now and then, he
became curious. He also may have thought he could get Lupin in trouble
and thereby punish all the Marauders. But once he found out that Lupin
was a werewolf, it wasn't that he was racist that added to his dislike
of Lupin -- it was the fact that he suspected Lupin and his friends
broke the rules and got away with it. So he wanted to *use* the
prejudices that wizarding society already has against werewolves
against Lupin.

I have the impression that while maybe Snape was brought up to have
the pure-blood prejudice, he did realize at some point that there's no
truth to it, but he doesn't/didn't care if it allowed him to have an
advantage over others. (I think deep down Snape really does want to be
respected and looked up to, but his need for that is expressed in very
ineffective ways.)

=)
Maddy