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

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No: HPFGUIDX 181118

> Alla:
> And maybe what actually happened in 
> > addition to Sirius telling Snape how to get in was Snape knowing 
> > full well that he will see werewolf there and going there 
anyways.
> > 
> 
> Leah: Hardly. Snape is not a fool, he would know he could not use 
> magic or escape from a fully turned werewolf. He is still bitter 
> about the 'Prank' in POA, many years later, in the Shrieking Shack 
> and later talking to Dumbledore.  He fully believes this was an 
> attempt by James, Sirius and Lupin to have him killed or bitten 
and 
> he is quite right about Sirius.     


Alla:

After his conversation with Lily I personally had no doubt that he 
at the very least had that theory about who Lupin is before prank 
happened. As you said, he is not a fool. I believe that he assigns 
that essay for Hermione to figure out who Lupin was because he 
figured that out himself in the similar way.

As to why would he go - he considers himself DADA expert, does he 
not? I believe that he was daring enough to try and defeat the "dark 
creature". 

And of course he believes it was an attempt to kill him. He can do 
it independently of thinking that he can defeat werewolf IMO.

As in - I Snape can try to do that, but how dare you Sirius tell me 
to go there. Oh, wait nobody told him to GO there. He was just told 
how to open the door, the opportunity which he appeared to be 
readily grasp IMO.

 
> Leah:  In what way is watching someone take a potion sadistic??

Alla:

I have to take certain medication every day. And believe me if 
somebody would stood nearby me and insisted that I have to drink 
this medication while he watches, I would have told this person to 
go away NOW. 

Leah:
<SNIP>
 > As I said before, this is a  complex and unusual potion.  It 
enables 
> the wereperson taking it to have a peaceful transformation.  A 
> skilled potion maker like Snape could, I would think, make the 
> transformation rather less peaceful without that being 
attributable 
> to anything other than the complexity of the potion.  He does not 
do 
> so.  The fact that Lupin says that Snape makes the 
> potion 'perfectly' suggests that Lupin may have had less than 
> perfect potions made for him with the best of intentions by other 
> potions brewers.  

Alla:

It is an assumption though. How do you know that the potion CAN be 
made less perfectly and still been safe for Lupin? For all I know 
the potion should be done a certain way ONLY, and to do it the other 
way means to make the potion uneffective. And Snape told Dumbledore 
that he would make it. Less perfect potions if such existed may have 
sabotaged the transformations and something tells me that Dumbledore 
would have been very unhappy if he learned about it. IMO of course.


Leah: 
> We must also assume that Snape keeps his word to Dumbledore about 
> WereLupin even after they leave Hogwarts and indeed after Snape 
has 
> become a DeathEater.  (We don't hear any objections from Lucius 
> Malfoy about a werewolf teaching Draco when Lupin is hired).  I 
> agree with Potioncat that that keeping of a promise must influence 
> Dumbledore's later trust in Snape.


Alla:

Sure he was keeping quiet. If Dumbledore extracted a promise back 
then, I think he could do it later as well.

JMO,

Alla