[HPforGrownups] Re: Snape - a werewolf bigot?? Was: Say it isn't so Lupin!!!

[Jazmyn Concolor]

No: HPFGUIDX 170152

I think what people are forgetting is that being a werewolf is not like 
having herpes or some muggle disease.  Snape has every right to feel 
that Lupin is a danger to people and should not be teaching children.

Lupin could miss one of his potions to control his condition and bite 
any number of kids before stopped.  What school in the muggle world 
would allow someone that dangerous around kids?  Say a person with a 
severe mental illness who is dependent on medication to control it and 
could snap just by missing their meds and become a danger to everyone?

Lupin might be a great teacher, but it was highly irresponsible of 
Dumbledore to have him at the school, regardless of the existing 
dangerous creatures in or around the school.  We should not be wondering 
if Snape is a bigot, which in this case is not justified, we should 
wonder if Dumbledore was senile to allow Lupin to teach.

Being a werewolf is NOT like having a muggle illness, its like having a 
ticking timb bomb which only the taking of a potion can keep it from 
going off.. WHO was making that potion??  Snape.  WHO forgot to take it 
and Snape had to go looking for him to remind him?  Lupin.  Seems pretty 
irresponsible of Lupin to forget to take the only potion that keeps him 
from mauling or killing the students in his care.

A side note: Most of the wizard work has prejudices.  Giants, centaurs, 
werewolves, animaguses, spiders, muggles, etc.  Ron in fact shows more 
of them openly then anyone..  Why are people singling out Snape in a 
world of people who would drop a child out a window to see if its a 
squib or who enslave elves or not give goblins the same rights as human 
wizards?

Jazmyn