Did Dumbledore perhaps think it better to let Lupin’s lycanthropy be known, rather than risk discovery and outrage if Lupin resigned without explanation? Did Dumbledore think it better to leak the news through his tactic of unofficial rumor, rather than through an official school announcement or Leaving Feast speech? Did he perhaps take advantage of Snape’s well-known animosity against Lupin and ask the undoubtedly cooperative Snape to break the news in a spiteful manner, drawing attention away from Lupin’s and Dumbledore’s failures and inciting popular sympathy for Lupin because of Snape’s
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