Slack for RL

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 34225

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "mjollner" <mjollner at y...> wrote:
> --- "judyserenity" <judyshapiro at e...> wrote:
> 
> > I'm with the crowd that wants to give Remus some slack.  (An 
> acronym! 
> >  We need an acronym!) 
> 
> I submit the following:
> G.R.A.B. - Give Remus a Break!
> P.R.A.W.N.A.M. - Poor Remus -- A Werewolf, Not a Monster!
> O.W.L.M.O.M. - Our Wonderful Lupin, Man of Mystery!
> R.A.T.M.A.N. - Remus, a Terrible Monster? Altogether: No!
> 
> (This is harder than it looks...O Tabouli, where art thou??)

How about R.E.C.K.L.E.S.S.

Remus, Evidencing Criminality, Kept Lawlessly Exiting Shrieking 
Shack ;-) 


> 
> judyserenity continues:
> > Several people here have talked about Remus going around 
in his  youth,  terrifying people while in wolf form.  We don't know 
that he ever did any such thing.  All he talks about is "near 
misses" -- it's not  clear 
> > that any of these misses involved terrifying anyone.  

Mjollnir writes:
> I'm with you, sister, about those "near misses."  Those who 
think  unduly ill of our beloved werewolf's youthful escapades 
should bear in  mind that when in the Shrieking Shack in PoA, 
he's trying in haste to  explain some very painful personal history 
to the disbelieving Trio.   Hermione calls him on the risks he 
took, for which he feels ever so guilty now.  But just imagine the 
freedom he felt at being able to be 
> out with his friends for the first time in his life (on top of the 
> gratification of *having* friends for the first time in his life).  
> The good influence they had on his mind during the full moon, 
plus the  sheer size of Padfoot and Prongs, were enough to 
settle his conscience  about the danger he posed to others while 
"out."  
>

Okay, we don't know what Remus did. But if the close calls 
weren't that close, then why should he say that he's still haunted 
by the risk he took? Is his conscience so needlessly tender? 
 
Remus says he became less dangerous when he was with his 
friends. I suppose that they kept him from the frenzy  that made 
him bite anything including himself when there were no humans 
around. But we do see how he acts when there *are* humans 
present and Sirius is there in dog form. Sirius has to pull him 
back and gets  bitten and scratched in the process. 

I can understand their wanting to leave the Shack. All that work to 
become Animagi, and what did they gain by it? They can't talk in 
their animal forms, can't play human games, or do much of 
anything but look sadly at each other. It must have been an awful 
disappointment. If they had only gone romping in  the Forest I 
wouldn't blame them so much. People would know to avoid it on 
a night of  full moon. But the village? And they did it over and over, 
and planned what they did, which is a little different than Ron and 
Harry suddenly getting a wild hair about taking the Car, or even 
Sirius blurting (if it was a blurt) how to get into the Willow.

As for the sheer pleasure of going out to play,well, once they'd 
discovered the secret entrances, they could get out any time, 
when Remus wasn't a wolf and not dangerous to anybody.  But 
they were too much in love with their game by then, I guess. 

Pippin
whose teenage close calls were closer than she likes to think