[HPforGrownups] Re: Lupin question

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 10309

Susan McGee wrote:

> Trust issues. It is absolutely true that if there is one person who
> can be trusted, this opens the door to trusting others. Amanda,
> although I would agree that Dumbledore is not quite a friend, he does
> start to prove trustworthy. I think Hagrid (see below) is the first
> step, then Dumbledore, then Lupin, then Black. Somewhere in there are
> the Weasleys. You can see Harry's healing path.

I think you got what I meant, though. I was thinking that Lupin was the
first adult male friend, on the role-model type image. Hagrid's kind of a
special case, not quite on the same footing with the other adults, at
least in Harry's mind, isn't he? Dumbledore is revered and trusted, but
perhaps too much revered to be familiar with. And he hasn't gotten too
much time with Black yet.

So just as Harry's really coming to relax and let himself--dare I
say--love Lupin, he leaves, which leaves a void where none had been before
and made things a tad easier for Moody. But again, you're right, Moody was
not close to Harry the same way that Lupin and Sirius are.

--Amanda