student!Snape keeping Lupin's secret (was Re: Sirius as a dog)

[juli17 at aol.com]

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> > Jayne:
> > <snip>
> > Did he  not find out in school though?
> 
> Mike:
> I'd rather doubt  it. The Marauders kept their secret from Dumbledore 
> for sure, so I'd  guess that Severus didn't know else he would have 
> exposed them,  wouldn't you think?


Potioncat:
It appears that Snape doesn't learn  of the Marauders' animagi tricks 
until the end of GoF, when Sirius  transforms in front of him. He may 
have heard about it at the end of PoA,  but I don't think he believed 
it. 

Mike, I think Severus would have  exposed them, unless he made one of 
his promises to DD. He seems to keep  those. 




Julie:
Do you mean promises like the one he apparently made after the  Shrieking
Shack incident? What I'm wondering, now that the series is  complete, is
*why* did student Snape never reveal that Lupin was a werewolf? He hated 
the Marauders, he no doubt would have been happy to see Lupin kicked  out
of school after the Shrieking Shack incident. He had every reason to blab  it
out. 
 
I know before DH came out we speculated that student!Snape made a  promise 
to DD not to blab. That perhaps Snape had done something DD was holding  over
him, or that Snape and DD had some sort of unknown relationship or tie that  
we
would learn about in DH. But that turned out not to be the case. DD had no  
more
interest or investment in Snape or his future than he had in any other  
Hogwarts 
student (which was, essentially, none whatsoever). 
 
>From canon, we can deduce that Snape was in trouble for breaking curfew,  just
as Sirius was presumably in trouble for deliberately setting Snape up, and  
that 
the two wrongs cancelled each other out in terms of punishment (whether  
Snape 
or anyone else thought this was a fair judgment). In PoA, Dumbledore stops 
Snape's rant about Sirius trying to "murder" him (true or not) by noting  
that he
has forgotten nothing, which shuts Snape up. At the time this seems  
potentially
significant, but now it seems to reference either student!Snape's own  
misdeed in
sneaking out of Hogwarts after curfew, or more likely I think, Snape's  
activities
as a DE and Dumbledore's later vouching that Snape was "no more a Death  Eater
than I am." 
 
But what about the werewolf secret? What could possibly have induced  Snape 
not
to spill the beans on Lupin? I can't really think of anything other than  
that Dumbledore
might have threatened to expel him if he did. (Honestly, it wouldn't  
surprise me now
that I know who Dumbledore really was, though there is no canon evidence  for 
it.)
But it still rings a bit false, as Dumbledore later doesn't seem to give  
much thought
to Lupin's circumstances or future. Any other ideas?
 
Julie 



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