[HPforGrownups] Remus isn't THAT nice

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No: HPFGUIDX 39113

Pippin:
> 
> Irene wrote:
> > But Lupin is ever so nice! There is nothing nasty about him 
> >(well,  27 days out of 28 but who counts).
> 
> Catlady said:
> >>>I fancy Remus most of all, and I don't believe it has anything 
> to do with wanting to rescue him or mother him or because he is 
> 'vulnerable': I believe his problems serve only to show how 
> (emotionally) strong he is; I fancy him because he is so 
> extremely kind (oh, the thought of someone being *that* kind to 
> me!), and competent, and emotionally strong.<<<<
> 

Pippin:

> irst of all Remus is dangerous. There's no telling when he will 
> forget to take his potion, except for the narrative certainty that it 
> will be at absolutely the wrong time. <g>

But going along with the hurt-comfort idea, or at least closely related in 
concept is the fact that the Remus-fan would never *allow* him to forget to 
take his potion, would they? And then their own dear little pet wolf would 
just curl up on the hearth rug until the full moon had passed. :-)


> But more importantly, Remus isn't  *always*  kind. I really 
> wouldn't want to get on the wrong side of him. He might send a 
> piece of chewing gum flying up my nose or humiliate me 
> 

Ah, but that's the 'Edge' that was discussed a little while back, that 
feeling that someone *could* just be dangerous or cruel, but, of course they 
won't be with you!
It adds a little frisson, don't you think?

And Snape's nastiness, and his Dark background have more or less the same 
effect, I think. They add a bit of danger, even of scandal, which does have 
its own attraction, especially for those of us who would probably never go 
near someone like that in RL. Fantasy expands one's horizons - safely. ;-)

> 
> Which makes me wonder... it would be interesting, wouldn't it, if it 
> turned out that Remus really was in on the you-know-what? He 
> never really said that he wasn't, did he? And Snape's suspicions, 
> while often overblown, are seldom all-together off the mark 
> 

No, they're not, are they?
But I think Remus does feel guilty about that incident (is this now The 
Incident-Which-Must-Not-Be-Named?) and about the whole 
encouraging-his-friends-to-be- animagi thing and so, whether or not he was 
party to Sirius' plan, he wouldn't deny responsibility.

Eloise






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