I think by that point Lupin, if he has any brains, has realized that Dumbledore is using him as much as he's using Snape, so that his protection is not entirely reliable in the long term.
Does he? He seems to value it very much considering that he's not telling Dumbledore that Sirius is an Animagus. Perhaps it is an indication that he's afraid Dumbledore might drop him at any moment, though. Either way, he does have the protection of what it would mean for Dumbledore to have it be known that he hired a werewolf, combined with the fact that he had had a student werewolf (not that that is necessarily known, perhaps people thought that Lupin became a werewolf afterwards). And Snape was so pissed off in the end that I think decided to punish both Dumbledore and Lupin by revealing Lupin's secret. He may be Dumbledore's dog but definitely yanked his leash a bit in that case.
You do have a point about Snape's threat by the fact that he assigned a werewolf essay. Pity none of the Slytherins were bright enough to figure it out. It came after this scene but in the scene where Snape catches Harry with the Marauders Map Lupin doesn't seem to be the least bit afraid of him and lies to him very easily. A bit reckless but he has Harry to think of. He certainly made more of an impression to Harry when shaming him into being safer than Snape being on his case about the same thing.
In theory, yes. But at the time of the conversation, Lupin is in human form and therefore not an immediate threat. Yet Snape doesn't behave as if he's afraid of something Lupin might do at full moon -- he behaves as if he's afraid right there and then.
Or as if he's afraid Lupin will be lax about his medicine and endanger everyone. And the time did come. And there's also the possibility that he thought Lupin was telling Harry about how his father and his friends knew Snape in school. I'm sure that becoming "Professor Snivellus" would not be a very good prospect for someone who values his dignity as much as Snape does.
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Date: 2004-05-08 12:50 pm (UTC)Does he? He seems to value it very much considering that he's not telling Dumbledore that Sirius is an Animagus. Perhaps it is an indication that he's afraid Dumbledore might drop him at any moment, though. Either way, he does have the protection of what it would mean for Dumbledore to have it be known that he hired a werewolf, combined with the fact that he had had a student werewolf (not that that is necessarily known, perhaps people thought that Lupin became a werewolf afterwards). And Snape was so pissed off in the end that I think decided to punish both Dumbledore and Lupin by revealing Lupin's secret. He may be Dumbledore's dog but definitely yanked his leash a bit in that case.
You do have a point about Snape's threat by the fact that he assigned a werewolf essay. Pity none of the Slytherins were bright enough to figure it out. It came after this scene but in the scene where Snape catches Harry with the Marauders Map Lupin doesn't seem to be the least bit afraid of him and lies to him very easily. A bit reckless but he has Harry to think of. He certainly made more of an impression to Harry when shaming him into being safer than Snape being on his case about the same thing.
In theory, yes. But at the time of the conversation, Lupin is in human form and therefore not an immediate threat. Yet Snape doesn't behave as if he's afraid of something Lupin might do at full moon -- he behaves as if he's afraid right there and then.
Or as if he's afraid Lupin will be lax about his medicine and endanger everyone. And the time did come. And there's also the possibility that he thought Lupin was telling Harry about how his father and his friends knew Snape in school. I'm sure that becoming "Professor Snivellus" would not be a very good prospect for someone who values his dignity as much as Snape does.