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

[Bex]

No: HPFGUIDX 181104

> Julie:
> 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. 
<SNIP>
> But what about the werewolf secret? What could possibly have 
> induced Snape not to spill the beans on Lupin? 
<SNIP>

Bex:
Interesting.. For research purposes, I read that particular memory
from DH. Snape hints to Lily ("Every month at the full moon") what's
"weird" about Lupin - he truly did keep it a secret.(And Lily is in
complete denial about it, unless she's pretending ("I know your theory")).

Perhaps Snape enjoyed lording it over the Marauders? Knowing that
Lupin owed him his continuing education (and possibly his life)?

Some other thoughts:
Maybe Lily was close friends with Remus? Remus has been
self-admittedly hopeless at Potions - maybe Lily was a tutor, and
getting Lupin expelled would upset her, so Snape didn't tell to save
her feelings?

Perhaps Snape didn't have as much a grudge against Lupin as he did
Sirius and James, and getting Lupin expelled wasn't what he wanted? (I
bet if he could have gotten Sirius expelled without Lupin being thrown
out, he would have done it in a heartbeat.)

On a similar note - has Snape always been willing to implicate the
person he didn't like with very little evidence? Perhaps he had a bit
of fairness in him that didn't *want* Remus to be expelled, since it
wasn't Remus' fault. And if he managed to get Sirius expelled, Lupin 
would be kicked out as well, by association and stigma. Perhaps Snape
didn't want to see Lupin get the blame for something he had no control
over?

Snape may have been sent to the hospital wing after his little
altercation with James and perhaps Sirius followed them. Snape may
have had a chance to hear James rip into Sirius (which would have
happened, I'm sure), and sadistic Severus leapt with joy at a way of
torturing one or both of them. Sirius feels guilty about endangering
Remus' life (James feels guilty about letting it go that far), and
both of them know the only reason Remus is still in school is that
Severus is keeping mum? Snape might have REALLY enjoyed that.



Take your pick, boys and girls. I prefer the ones where Snape is a
sadistic bastard, since I feel like that would have been his main
motive - but the Lily factor may have a role in this. Possibly a
combination of some of the above?

~Bex