Lupin (was: Personality, Glasses and Gender (was: What does this mean?)

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--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "GulPlum" <plumeski at y...> wrote:

> As it happens, I don't think whatever the questionnaire thought 
> Lupin and I have in common is what attracts the girls. I suspect 
> that the  main element of Lupin's personality which you girls find 
> attractive is his hardly-repressed vulnerability, which brings out 
> all your  maternal instincts 

Leaving aside "vulnerability", which is a confusing word, some of the 
Lupin lovers want to take care of him, feed him up and find him a 
place to live, a job that doesn't descriminate against werewolves, 
and a generally somewhat-lower-stress life... you can call that 
maternal instincts... but IIRC some have said they fancy him BECAUSE 
he is dangerous...

but *I* do not fall into either of those categories. I fancy Remus 
because he is kind and competent and responsible, and I want *him* to 
take care of *me* ... when us readers listened in on him teaching 
the third-year Gryffindors, being gentle and helpful with Neville and 
supportive of Harry, I imagined someone treating *me* with so much 
kindness, and immediately was fallen...