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

[littleleahstill]

No: HPFGUIDX 181139

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Jayne" <jaynesmith62 at ...> wrote:
>
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214"
> <dumbledore11214@> wrote:
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> <snip>
> > And then it is back to Dumbledore, where yes I doubt he would have
> > dared to tell Lupin's secret under Dumbledore's nose till Lupin gave
> > him a lovely opening.
> <snip rest of post>
> 
> 
> But he did eventually tell. He let on at the end of PoA so Lupin had
> to resign as a teacher. Why did he do it then?
> 
Leah: Because Lupin has failed to take the Wolfsbane potion, 
transformed and put students (and presumably others) in danger. Because 
Lupin  failed to tell Dumbledore that Sirius could access Hogwarts via 
the Shrieking Shack passage and also failed to mention that Sirius was 
an animagus (all admitted by Lupin, and Snape at this stage probably 
still believes Sirius is a murderer). There are more personal and less 
worthy reasons of course - Snape has heard Lupin say to him'the joke's 
on you again', referring to the Prank which nearly killed Snape and 
hasalso heard Sirius say that Snape 'deserved' to die in the Shack.

Incidentally, there does not seem to be any criticism of Snape by 
Dumbledore for 'letting slip' Lupin's secret.  When Dumbledore says 
goodbye to Lupin in Harry's presence, there's no regret from 
Dumbledore; it's your carriage awaits, and a sober 'Goodbye, Remus'.  
Snape is presumably not the only one hacked off by what Lupin didn't 
reveal.  It could be that Snape revealed the secret with Dumbledore's 
full permission (and of course an 'outed' werewolf will make a good spy 
later on!) 

Leah