Rulebreaking (Sirius and Remus)

[Melody B.]

No: HPFGUIDX 38638


>Catlady wrote:
>Remus *could* have an entirely selfish reason for disapproval: what
>does MoM do to a werewolf who bites a wizard? At the very least,
>having to leave Hogwarts. Possibly imprisonment or execution.

Does that count as selfish? I wouldn't call anyone selfish who was hoping 
they wouldn't kill somebody. I think it's Sirius who's being selfish here, 
using Remus to hurt Snape, but not thinking about the possible consequences 
for Remus.

>Also, as a fairly mature and thoughtful person, or as a person who
>cares about Sirius, he probably thought that Sirius was being a
>complete idiot to take so much risk to his Sirius-self (does murder
>by use of a werewolf rate a life sentence in Azkaban?) for so
>little
>purpose.

I disagree. Remus is in much more danger than Sirius here.

And Doldra replied:
>I agree, but personally, if I were Remus, I'd disapprove of (and be
>really bitter about) Sirius' prank because he used -me- to do it. I
>think that the werewolf issue was (and still is?) probably a pretty
>sensitive topic with Remus when he was a teenager, especially since
>it alienated him so much. After all, he had to be led to an abandoned
>cabin once a month so that he wouldn't kill anyone. The fact that
>Sirius, one of Remus' best friends, used him and his weakness to
>amuse himself (by himself I mean Sirius) must have been really
>difficult to deal with at that age. It probably still gets to him.

Yeah, this is probably still a really touchy subject for Remus. Sirius 
really did the wrong thing here. He risked having Snape's turning into a 
werewolf or being murdered over some schoolboy rivalry, and what's more, he 
used on of his best friends to do it, not thinking of the position it might 
put Remus in.

Melody

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