Lupin Is Not An Airhead! (WAS Remus: Once more with f...

[Ahketsi at aol.com]

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In a message dated 5/31/2002 4:17:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
cindysphynx at comcast.net writes:


> What's this?  Another spirited attack on Lupin premised on the idea 
> that Lupin is forgetful and deserved to lose the only paid work he 
> has been able to find?  Based on the assumption that Remus, that 
> Knucklehead, just forgot to take his potion that night?  He's so 
> darn forgetful that he is an out-and-out menace to the entire 
> Hogwarts student body, so Snape's revealing Remus' secret was the 
> best way to protect all of those helpless students?
> 
I absolutely, 100% agree!

Cindy also says:

> The only one who says that Lupin forgot his potion is *Snape*, who 
> says, "You forgot to take your potion tonight."
> 
> Now, is there any good reason to believe Snape here?  How would 
> Snape know *why* Lupin didn't take his potion?  Indeed, Snape hates 
> Lupin, so Snape could be expected to describe Lupin's failure in the 
> most insulting way possible.  Snape is just assuming the worst about 
> Lupin -- as usual.
> 

Hmmm, okay, this is the part that I have a problem with. The truth is, I'm 
sure people have already responded to this post, but I haven't read any of 
it, and probably wont since I haven't been able to read my e-mail and I'm not 
exactly overflowing with free time here. 

Anyway,it just seems to me that, the first part was good, definitely, but 
this second part just leaves your attackers free to ignore the good stuff at 
the top and critisize this bottom scenario here. The truth is, it's likely 
that Lupin forgot his potion, and it seems to me that running off to help 
Sirius and Harry & co, even though he hasn't taken his potion yet, is even 
worse than forgetting to take the potion! By going there he would be taking 
the risk that he might not be able to get back quick enough to take his 
potion and transform! That is a risk that he simply can not afford to take! 

Now, my opinion is, a person isn't an airhead because they forgets something! 
Also, Lupin is not a bad person, or a not-so-great person, just because he 
made this mistake! By critisizing Lupin for making his mistake, people are 
pretty much saying that he doesn't understand how dangerous he is, and he is 
weak for it, and/or they are saying that he never should have taken the 
teaching position in the first place! Well, I plan to fight that, right now. 

I don't think he's weak-minded at all and I think that he genuinely despises 
himself for putting Harry and the rest in danger. Weak-minded includes 
carelessness, and I think that people make mistakes, and sometimes the costs 
are great, life and death, but that is a fact of life and it shouldn't make 
people believe they do not deserve to live! That is practically what people 
are saying about Lupin here, that he shouldn't take this job, even though he 
can't find work. You're saying he was wrong to take the job at all, or he's 
careless. He deserves to live and work just like the rest of us, sure there 
was risk, but with the new potion and plenty of teachers to look after the 
students, the risk was almost nonexistant... or so everyone rationally 
decided. Lupin now feels ashamed of himself for what has happened. And what 
has he done? Tried to live. 

::sigh:: Okay, I think that's it...

-Ahketsi


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