Lupin and Snape WAS: Re: Hagrid and Snape:

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 152779

Alla:
> So, Lupin made a mistake, huge one, but did himself "made irreparable 
> damage to his prospects for career in teaching'? Erm, NO WAY. Not in 
> my book.

Pippin:
You've got nothing to lose if your predictions about Lupin's trustworthiness
turn out to be ill-founded. 

Would you stake the lives and futures of other people's children on your
confidence in Lupin? Would you like to be accountable to the Slytherin 
parents if you are wrong? That's the position Snape was in.

Rowling did not say that Snape was to blame for exposing Lupin as a werewolf. 
IMO, blaming Snape is blaming the messenger. Lupin's own actions 
made his exposure inevitable. Lupin recognized that when he offered his 
resignation and again when he told Harry that it would have come out anyway.

How  could Lupin guarantee that it would never happen again except
by resigning? If *your*  carelessness on the job exposed three children to
a life-threatening disease, would you think you deserved to stay on? 
Knowing that  absolutely nothing could be done to  make amends if
you weren't so lucky next time?



Pippin