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

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No: HPFGUIDX 181114

 
> Leah:> 
> Far from enabling Snape to 'lord it' over the Marauders, being 
> forbidden to tell puts Snape in a very awkward position vis a vis 
> Lily, because he can not explain to her what actually  happened in 
> the Prank, ie Sirius played a trick which would have killed Snape 
or 
> turned him into a werewolf, and he can not warn Lily that he was 
> right in his suspicions of Lupin.  He is struggling with this in 
his 
> memory of talking with Lily in 'The Prince's Tale'.

Potioncat:
I really wish JKR had given us more information about The Prank. I 
agree with everything you've said here. It appears to me that Severus 
showed a great deal of honor in this situation. The Prank happened 
the end of his 5th year, and he did not reveal the information during 
his school days or after. (Untill it slipped at the breakfast table 
years later.)

It would seem to me that had to play into DD's acceptace of Snape's 
promise to "do anything" if DD would protect Lily and later Snape's 
promise to protect Harry. 


>Leah:   
> Since we are told that the potion is very complex and dangerous, 
> Snape could presumably cause Lupin some discomfort, at least, each 
> month, by a small 'slip' of the hand, but by Lupin's own testimony 
> to Harry, the potion is made 'perfectly'.   Not very sadistic.

Potioncat:
On the night of The Seven Potters, he will risk his cover to protect 
Lupin. That's as bad as Harry's Expelliarmus on Stan.