Lupin and Snape WAS: Re: Hagrid and Snape:

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 152802

> 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. 

Pippin:
It wouldn't be unprofessional if Lupin wasn't a teacher any longer.
Lupin "[r]esigned firs' thing this mornin'." Snape made his announcement
at breakfast. 

Lupin himself does something similar by returning the Marauders
Map to Harry. He doesn't consider himself bound by professional ethics
because he's not a teacher any more.

The chronology is unstated, nevertheless it couldn't be 'first thing in
the morning'  if  Lupin had waited until he heard the gossip
before resigning. He doesn't say that the gossip persuaded him.
He says the reverse, that after what happened last night, he saw the
point of people who wouldn't want him teaching their children, 
though the owls won't start arriving till tomorrow.

Fudge had already been told that Lupin had been on the
grounds. Though I'm sure this was the only thing that convinced
Fudge that Lupin couldn't have helped Black escape, it wouldn't
give Fudge any reason to continue allowing this particular werewolf
to go on working at Hogwarts. Lupin was right to think his exposure
was inevitable.

BTW, in GoF, Fudge declares that he's let Dumbledore "hire 
werewolves." Is Fudge exaggerating, or does anyone think there's 
another werewolf on the staff? It'd have to be one of the professors
Harry doesn't have.

It's sad that many  of the people who wouldn't want Lupin 
teaching their children wouldn't care whether he was safe around them
or not, but we are still talking about a teacher who had to be physically
restrained by another adult from attacking three students. Whatever you
want to say about Snape, no adult in canon has ever thought he was 
endangering  a student's life.

Pippin