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

[justcarol67]

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 Betsy Hp: <thoroughly snipped>
> Yeeaahh... I tend to agree with you. Only...  It does make Snape out 
> to be petty and childish doesn't it?  "Meh, he made me lose my 
> precious reward so I'll snitch on him and make him lose his job. 
> Nyah."  I see a bit of the classic passive-aggressive stuff Lupin is 
> so very, very good at going on here.  (Calling Snape "Severus" is 
> another example.) <snip>

Carol responds:
I've snipped most of your post (which, in general, I agree with) to
ask a question. I can see why you would regard the Order of Merlin
"explanation" as passive aggressive, but why regard his calling snape
"Severus" in that way? I always read it as an attempt at civility
(More civil than thou, maybe) until HBP, when I realized that Lupin
refers to Snape as Severus in third as well as second person. Now it
seems to me as if he sees Snape as an equal, an exact contemporary,
and he's calling him by his first name just as he did Sirius Black and
James Potter. Maybe in part it's genuine gratitude for the Wolfsbane
Potion, which saved him nine (should have been ten) months of
excessive suffering.

Carol, wondering if she's the only person on the list who believes
Lupin when he says "I neither like nor dislike Severus"