Snape vs Lupin (was:Werewolves and RL equivalents...

[Ceridwen]

No: HPFGUIDX 170438

Magpie:
>From Lupin's pov, again I don't think Snape's actions here have to be 
petty for him to hit back passive-aggressively. I think he knows that 
Snape thinks he's a threat--Snape says it often enough--and that's 
what he's treating him like here. A threat who's also part of a 
schoolboy rivalry.

Ceridwen:
I'm wondering how much of Snape's backing out of the room and 
insisting in more than one way that Lupin drink his potion has to do 
with a student (even if it is Harry, maybe because it specifically is 
Harry) is in the room after hours, with transformation a short time 
away.  Lupin would know more about that particular risk than Snape, 
of course, and can play on his greater knowledge, to Snape's 
discomfort.  Could that be one way Lupin is passively-agressively 
taunting Snape?

The scene does play like a lot of subtext is missing in our available 
information.

Ceridwen.