Werewolves and RL equivalents

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 170456

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214"
<dumbledore11214 at ...> wrote:
>
> > Carol responds:
> <SNIP>
>  Snape *know*
> > that Lupin will either resign or be asked to leave. Why not mention
> > it? If he *knew* that Lupin had* already resigned* or that DD had
> > *already* asked him to do so, there'd be no problem, would there?
> <SNIP>
> 
> 
> Alla:
> 
> Hmmm, why not do it even if Snape knows that Lupin is already 
> resigned, which may or may not be true? Maybe because Snape is aware 
> of the treatment werewolves incur in WW? Maybe because Snape aware 
> that it makes impossible for Lupin to find **any** job after 
> everybody knows that he is a werewolf?
> 
> Probably for the reasons of basic human decency and compassion, which 
> Snape in my opinion appears to be sadly lacking in this department.
> 
> Alla.
>

Carol responds:
I don't think that the students' knowing about Lupin being a werewolf
had any bearing at all on his job prospects outside Hogwarts (which he
had forfeited through his own negligence), nor would their parents
care whether Lupin had a job or not as long as he wasn't endangering
their children. The anti-werewolf legislation was already in effect
(it had nothing to do with Snape), and Fudge already knew that Lupin
was a werewolf and had endangered three students (whether or not he
was trying to help them), so he could and IMO have stepped in if Lupin
had attempted to violate the law (not to mention that he's close to
Umbridge, who passed the legislation, and no doubt learned from Fudge
what had happened). 

I don't see how Snape's words affect Lupin at all. (As I said, we
don't even know whether they were spoken before or after his
inevitable resignation.) If Snape had remained silent, Lupin would
still have resigned, voluntarily or otherwise, and would still have
been affected by the anti-werewolf legislation. And all because he
endangered three students by running out onto the grounds and
forgetting to take his potion. It wasn't Snape's words or the imagined
owls from parents that caused Lupin to lose his job. It was Lupin
himself in combination with the DADA curse. And he'd have had no job
prospects outside Hogwarts in any case. (If he took a job illegally,
he'd be discovered rather quickly because of his monthly absences or
illnesses, IMO, and would end up in Azkaban thanks to Umbridge, not
Snape.)

Carol, who thinks that DD would have been angry with Snape if he'd
revealed Lupin's condition *before* the Shrieking Shack incident but
sees no reason to be angry with him now