From Snape’s point of view, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is not the story of a kind teacher with a stigmatized disability and a wrongly incarcerated man set free by his courageous godson. It is the story of bullies who once got away with nearly getting Snape killed, the headmaster who refused to expel Sirius but cracked down on Snape by forbidding him to talk about his ordeal, the werewolf who returned as a teacher and once again posed a fatal danger to Hogwarts students, and the same headmaster, older but apparently no wiser, refusing even to listen to Snape’s concerns for student
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