I actually hated Snape right up until the end of book 6. Then I did the mental math about Dumbledore's death, decided Snape was on the side of the light, but no one knew it, and the whole world was against him and he was all alone and... OMG POOR SEVVY!!! ;_;
I don't think criminal negligence requires malice. Just and reckless disregard of one's responsibilities. Like a baby sitter who leaves her charge alone may not have wanted the child to drink the Drano, but she's still culpable as it was her job to watch the kid.
It's was Remus' responsibility to take his 'do not eat people' potion and he didn't, even with the (perhaps not prominent) reminder. This nearly got several people killed, including three minor children. He was a teacher that near killed his students through neglect. He needed to be fired and to have it ensured he would never be given such a responsibility again. Do I think Snape took sadistic pleasure in getting Lupin fired? Heck yeah. But it was the right thing to do.
BTW: I was just looking for this bit in the book and all I can find is this line from Hagrid:
"Er - Snape told all the Slytherins this mornin'...Thought everyone'd know by now...Professor Lupins' a werewolf, see. An' he was loose on the grounds las' night."
And from Lupin: "That was the final straw for Severus. I think the loss of the Order of Merlin hit him hard. So he-er-accidentally let it slip that I am a werewolf this morning at breakfast."
Beyond this second and third hand information, I can't find anything about about what Snape did or said, or any gossip or reaction from parents or the student body. Lupin says he thinks letters will arrive the next day but he leaves before it happens. It doesn't even say he was fired, just that he resigned. I remember this differently, with a big brouhaha about having a werewolf teacher. Is that in a different book, or am I confusing stuff from the fanfic I've read?
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Date: 2008-09-05 06:28 am (UTC)I don't think criminal negligence requires malice. Just and reckless disregard of one's responsibilities. Like a baby sitter who leaves her charge alone may not have wanted the child to drink the Drano, but she's still culpable as it was her job to watch the kid.
It's was Remus' responsibility to take his 'do not eat people' potion and he didn't, even with the (perhaps not prominent) reminder. This nearly got several people killed, including three minor children. He was a teacher that near killed his students through neglect. He needed to be fired and to have it ensured he would never be given such a responsibility again. Do I think Snape took sadistic pleasure in getting Lupin fired? Heck yeah. But it was the right thing to do.
BTW: I was just looking for this bit in the book and all I can find is this line from Hagrid:
"Er - Snape told all the Slytherins this mornin'...Thought everyone'd know by now...Professor Lupins' a werewolf, see. An' he was loose on the grounds las' night."
And from Lupin: "That was the final straw for Severus. I think the loss of the Order of Merlin hit him hard. So he-er-accidentally let it slip that I am a werewolf this morning at breakfast."
Beyond this second and third hand information, I can't find anything about about what Snape did or said, or any gossip or reaction from parents or the student body. Lupin says he thinks letters will arrive the next day but he leaves before it happens. It doesn't even say he was fired, just that he resigned. I remember this differently, with a big brouhaha about having a werewolf teacher. Is that in a different book, or am I confusing stuff from the fanfic I've read?