Lupin and Snape WAS: Re: Hagrid and Snape:

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No: HPFGUIDX 152800

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at ...> wrote:
>
> > 
> > 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


Sue here:

Whoever we "blame" here - and I'm a Snape fan, I should add, though I wouldn't want him 
for my science teacher in real life! - I suggest that his behaviour in letting the kids know 
was unprofessional. I work in the school system myself. If someone has done something 
that puts the kids at risk, or abuses them, or whatever, you report it to the Principal, NOT 
gossip about it in class the next day. If, as in this case, the Principal knows, you let him/
her get on with it. I have a few colleagues I am not fond of, but if the kids say, "I don't like 
Mr So and So," I just tell them that I don't gossip about other staff, even if it's someone I 
dislike intensely, and change the subject.

Of course, he might have decided that that softie DD would let Lupin get away with it yet 
again, who knows? But he does respect DD and care what he thinks. And this is still 
unprofessional behaviour.