[HPforGrownups] Re: Nice vs. Good, honesty, and Snape: Was Snape, Apologies, and Redemption

[IreneMikhlin]

No: HPFGUIDX 153147

lanval1015 wrote:

> 
> Lanval:
> His 'unprofessional behavior' with Snape? Are you referring to the 
> Boggart scene? 

There was more than the boggart scene. The whole "Severus" business was 
very annoying. Now, I'm going out on a limb here, but the fact that this 
was not reciprocated suggests strongly to me that it was uninvited.
Lupin has no business to be on the first name basis with Snape.
It's OK for Dumbledore, who is Snape's boss and 120 years older, but 
it's completely out of line for Lupin.
If professor McGonagall can manage to call a boy that she taught not so 
long ago Professor Snape in public, so can Lupin.

If one of my schooldays' tormentors appeared at my work place and 
started behaving as if we were the best of chums, I'm not sure I'd be 
able to keep my cool even to the level Snape does in PoA.

Irene