Lupin and Snape WAS: Re: Hagrid and Snape:

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 152795

> 
> Alla:
> 
> I am ONLY talking about Snape's actions here and I do disagree. I 
> think the tone of her answer can not be more clear. She does not say 
> that his forgetfullness to drink the potion brought the end to his 
> teaching career. She says "His exposure as 
> werewolf brought irreparable damage to his career in teaching". I'd 
> say this is a very negative evaluation of such action, Pippin. But 
> this is just me of course.
>

Pippin:
You are blaming the person who reported instead of the person
who made the report necessary. Snape was unconscious during
Lupin's transformation and escape into the forest, yet Dumbledore
knew about it by the time he spoke to Harry in the Hospital Wing.
The only person who could have told Dumbledore is that mean
old Lupin hater, Sirius Black. 

And since Snape was not present for that interview, the only way
Snape could have learned that Lupin was at large on the grounds 
was from  Dumbledore. Dumbledore also must have told  Fudge 
about it, since we hear that he convinced Fudge that Lupin 
had not gone out to the shack to help Black. 

Since Dumbledore only tells people what they need to know, he
must have thought that Fudge and Snape needed this information.
He had to have known that it wouldn't stay secret. So I think you
had better blame Sirius and Dumbledore as well as Snape, 
if blame is in order for putting the students' safety first.

Pippin