CHAPTER DISCUSSION: Prisoner of Azkaban Chapter 14: Snape's grudge

[justcarol67]

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> CHAPTER DISCUSSION: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
> Chapter 14: Snape's grudge
> Sirius Black is inside Gryffindor Tower. Security is tightened within Hogwarts but no guard is added to the hidden passageway via the statue of the one-eyed witch, confirming its existence is not known to the staff. Ron becomes an overnight celebrity, describing his confrontation with Black. <snip>

Carol responds:
One faculty member knows about it and remains silent: Lupin. Later, he confesses knowing that Black was an Animagus, but, IIRC, he never admits that he knows anything about secret passages--even though he believes, like DD and Snape, that Harry's life is in danger.

> Questions:
<snip>
> 2. Were Harry and Ron extremely foolish and selfish not to reveal the hidden passageway to Hogwart's staff, especially to Dumbledore?

Carol responds:
Probably, but it's typical for them not to reveal what they know to adults, in this case because the revelation of the map would get the Twins in trouble. The one who ought to have revealed his knowledge was Lupin. Instead, he seems to think that watching the map himself (when he's alone and in human form) will be sufficient.

Carol, who thinks that Lupin is a coward and would have been partially responsible if Sirius Black really had tried to kill Harry (or Ron)