[HPforGrownups] Re: Why Suspect Lupin? (WAS: Snape, Lupin's Mistakes Again)

[Laura Huntley]

No: HPFGUIDX 35107

*sigh* I realize I have been posting entirely too much today..after this *one last comment*, I'm cutting myself off...I promise.  No, really.  *smiles a trustworthy smile, she hopes*...*realizes she needs to find different notation for either italicizing or actions, because using *'s for both is frankly confusing*

ELKINS SAID: 
> "'They call it the Dementor's Kiss,' said Lupin, with a slightly 
> twisted smile."

THEN EILEEN SAID:
>"And at that moment, I was crying, "Harry! Harry! >It's Sirius Black! 
>When will you realize?" "Slightly twisted." That is >awful.

Now, I am not going to try to deny for a second that Lupin Has Edge.  However, I interpreted that line in PoA to mean something entirely different.  Perhaps it's because I never thought that Lupin could actually be Black (were we being led to believe this? there was a red-herring? *looks alarmed* I must've missed it. *depressed sigh* I was never any good at fishing), but I always thought that the "slightly twisted smile" in question was not meant to be "twisted" in a psycho-homicidal way, but in a grimacing, half-smile kind of way.  As if Lupin were recognizing, in his subtle way, the irony of the name (a soul-sucking black magic described as a "kiss"?!) and of the situation.  Also, when I went back and re-read the books, I figured it also having something to do with his internal struggle over the entire Sirius's fate.  I mean, Lupin must've wanted justice for the Potters, but Sirius was also his friend, and the idea of the kiss being administered to someone he had loved so dearly must have hurt as well.  Lupin seems to me to be the type of person to respond to such an inner conflict with a melancholy, ironic smile. 


EILEEN ALSO SAID:
>Perfect. Sirius and the others know and like Lupin >well enough, but 
>there's already something instinctively dismaying >about his manner, 
>even when there isn't a war going on. I'd guess that >Lupin has been 
>the object of suspicions, great and small, since he >was very young. I 
>suspected him. 

^_~ I think that if any of the Marauders were ever dismayed by any of the other Marauder's behavior/manner, it would Lupin wagging his finger at Sirius.  Definitely not the other way around.

ELKINS SAID:
> (We won't even get into her response when she discovered the 
Snape-Is-
> Sexy people.)

me too.  sheesh.

EILEEN SAID:
>An interesting thing, though, imho, is that plenty of >people want to 
>"run off" with Sirius or Severus, but quite a few >have expressed hopes 
>of "marrying" Lupin.

>Now why would that be? Is it acknowledgement that >neither of the above 
>is stable enough to become that committed? ;-)

It's probably because Lupin is portrayed as quiet, thoughtful, sensitive, good with kids, and the like.  Whereas Sirius is, as you said, kind of unstable, and Snape is just an... *coughs very hard*...you know what I was going to say.  Which one would you like to be the "father of your children" (okay, that was sappy) and the like?  Although I stand by my conviction that Sirius IS turning into a devoted, caring father-figure for Harry.

laura


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