[HPforGrownups] Re: Snape, Apologies, and Redemption--Lupin vs. DD

[Irene Mikhlin]

No: HPFGUIDX 152655


--- lanval1015 <lanval1015 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 
> Can you point me to where in canon Sirius, post-POA,
> displays strong 
> meanness toward anyone but Snape (and, on one
> occasion to Harry)?

So if someone is only mean to two people, it does not
make him mean, right? Did I get your argument
correctly?
Brilliant, because that should close all the "Snape
the mean teacher" arguments forever. He is only mean
to Harry and Neville, ergo, he is not mean. ;-))))

> Lanval:
> (Does anyone truly believe that Snape brews this
> potion out of the 
> goodness of his heart? Or could it be that DD
> asked/ordered him to 
> do so?)

Again we have this distinction of words vs. deeds. It
does not matter that he didn't brew it out of the
goodness of his heart. He spent his time brewing this
difficult potion every four weeks, and delivered it to
Lupin personally (despite all the passive-agressive
shit Lupin was dishing out, but that's another
thread), and that's all that counts with me.

>  
> Nope, Snape does not end up in the Shrieking Shack
> because he 
> worries about dear Remus taking his potion. Nor is
> he there to 
> protect Harry. His purpose is to catch Black and
> Lupin.

And what is wrong with that? Black is a convicted
criminal on the run, and Snape suspects Lupin of
aiding him (quite justified in his suspicions too;
Lupin was in fact helping Black, by witholding
information).

Irene

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