OFH SNAPE was: Script from JKR's reading/ About Snape and Dumbledore

[Renee]

No: HPFGUIDX 156920

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "snow15145" <kking0731 at ...> wrote:
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> Betsy Hp:
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> Honestly, with all we've learned about Snape and the Marauders it 
> makes *so* much sense that Snape reverts to a child screaming about 
> the unfairness of life at this point. I honestly doubt Snape had a 
> thought about the lost Order of Merlin. Later it may have been an 
> insult on top of injury, but it certainly doesn't seem the 
> underlying cause of his rage at this point, since he never, never 
> mentions it. 
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> *Lupin* mentions it. Actually, he's the one to come up with and 
> float that particular theory.
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> "Professor Dumbledore managed to convince Fudge that I was trying to 
> save your lives." He sighed. "That was the final straw for 
> Severus. I think the loss of the Order of Merlin hit him hard." 
> [PoA scholastic hardback p.423]
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> But are we really supposed to take Lupin's view as a keen insight 
> into one Severus Snape? Lupin lies. 

Renee:
Yes, I suppose Lupin realises it's not the loss of the Order of Merlin
that hit Snape so hard. He knows only too well it's Sirius's escape
that made Snape froth at the mouth. But Sirius's escape was Harry's
(and Hermione's) doing. What if Lupin merely wants to avoid suggesting
that Harry's rescue of Sirius has played an indirect role in his
resignation? Harry's despondent enough at the time, thinking he has
accomplished nothing. Also, Lupin knows he deserves to leave anyway,
whatever Snape's motivation is. So he comes up with the - admittedly
lame - Order of Merlin explanation. Note that he doesn't present it as
a fact, but as an opinion.  

And whether Harry buys it or not, he doesn't draw any conclusions from
it, and the Order of Merlin is never brought up again in connection
with Snape. Harry simply doesn't care about it and it's not important.
If Lupin is lying here, it's a white lie.  

Renee