S/D (Was: setting the cat down

[Blaise]

No: HPFGUIDX 2017

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, foxmoth at q... wrote:

<<I am wondering why you would say this...I thought the situation in 
> PoA where Lupin seems to be afraid to even touch Harry and then 
(fast 
> forward)has to leave the school because of  potential scandal and 
> parental outrage was sensitive and  subtle and very moving...Or am 
I reading too much into it?>>

That's something I've never thought of.  But I think that Remus 
doesn't touch Harry because he doesn't like showing his emotions 
rather than because he was afraid of any misinterpretations of his 
actions.  

However, I can see a lot in the notion of a teacher having to leave a 
school to forestall parental outrage, because it has happened at my 
old school many times, and many times the students have been furious 
about it.  JKR's handling of this was extremely moving and sensitive, 
as perhaps we might expect from a former teacher.

~Blaise.