[HPFGU-Movie] Thoughts incl. Damage, Boggart, Time, Creatures, Prongs perspective, and Latin

[Taryn Kimel]

Carin:
Thought: I was struck anew, especially after seeing David Thewlis's
Lupin, at how 
_damaged_ - ravaged, even - the Marauders are - the ones
that aren't dead, that is. 
Sirius's damaged-ness is much-discussed, but Lupin's really brought
home to me the 
poignancy of the whole situation of the characters who are Harry's
parents' age. I 
know Lupin's physical scars and his threadbareness come from his
lycanthropy, but 
they speak so eloquently of what it means to be a survivor of the
first Voldemort era. 
And these guys are only in their mid-thirties! My age or a little
younger, and I'm the 
same age as JKR. (Sobering thought on both counts.) Anyway, it made
me reconsider 
how the adult perspective - ours and the characters' -
operates in POA and later 
books.

Taryn:
I got the EXACT same feeling. Just the increasing prominence of the scratches across Lupin's face were enough for a physical reminder, but just the emotional weight that's on him and the rest of his generation. I cried when that full moon came out, because all I could think of was how much crap he had to have in his life and why did he have to have this one horrible thing that he couldn't control at all. He really is a very tragic character.

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