incident, compounding Snape’s trauma. Dumbledore would not hear Snape’s safety concerns when he appointed Lupin to a teaching position, but it turned out that Snape was right. It was not humanly possible to guarantee anyone’s safety against lycanthropy, despite Dumbledore’s precautions and Snape’s inexorable production of Wolfsbane. The first time, another human who was in on the secret showed faulty judgment and exposed a student to the werewolf. The second time, Lupin’s own human emotions prevented his self-care. Fortunately, nobody was hurt in either instance, but Snape was right: it would
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