[HPforGrownups] Re: Sirius' Prank & Lupin (WAS Dehumanizing Language--Sirius' Prank)

[Fiat Incantatum]

No: HPFGUIDX 34438

On 31 Jan 2002 at 8:13, ssk7882 wrote:

> it's not all that distant, in fact, from 
> that "I am your reproachful parent figure" tone that we see Voldemort 
> taking with his DEs in the graveyard in Book Four.

Hmm.  What I got out of that scene in the Shrieking Shack was a sense of "Good 
Cop/Bad Cop" with Lupin in the role of the "Good Cop".  Specifically, it struck 
me as possible that some of the behavior was done solely for the purpose of 
eliciting a confession from Wormtail.

  
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