Remus isn't THAT nice

[jferer]

No: HPFGUIDX 39175

Pip:"It may be an unpopular view, but I think Remus is the first sign 
we  have that Dumbledore doesn't always trust the right people. I also 
think Snape was right in forcing his resignation at the end of GoF."

I have to say at the outset I didn't like your take on this. You seem 
to expect Remus to operate under tremendous stress in a way that 
people under stress just don't behave.  Imagine the shock to find out 
that Peter Pettigrew is *alive*! The danger the Trio was under! His 
first thought was to get there as fast as possible. 

"...Muffled footsteps were echoing up through the floor -- someone was 
moving downstairs.

"WE'RE UP HERE!" Hermione screamed suddenly. "WE'RE UP HERE -- SIRIUS
BLACK - QUICK!" Remember, Sirius is still a mad killer in everybody's 
eyes.

Pip:"If Remus truly believed that he was a monstrous killer while 
werewolf, then the FIRST thing he would have done on seeing Peter 
Petigrew's name on the map would have been to think 'Arggh! It's a 
full moon', run like heck to Snape's office and ask 'is that potion 
ready?' and THEN go after Peter. Instead he forgets, transforms, 
nearly kills the Trio, lets Peter escape and ruins Sirius's chance 
of freedom."

I wish I knew all the factors and  everything that would happen before 
I acted, but I don't, and I wish I thought ahead that well in times of 
stress, but I don't, and dealing with emergencies is part of what I do 
for work. You expect more than humans can deliver as if they'd do it 
if they cared. Like Harry, Remus is a man of action. 

The Hermiones of the world, who research, think, plan, and then think 
again, are really important, but sometimes you just have to move your 
a** and hope for the best. (One of the reasons Hermiones are important 
is that they prepare the Harrys of the world for their trials.)

Pip:"I see Remus as someone who is in deep denial about how dangerous 
he really is as a werewolf. That's why he allows himself to play 
around with the Maurauders whilst a werewolf, that's why he accepts a 
job in a school full of children who don't know how to defend 
themselves against a werewolf, that's why he forgets to take his 
potion."

How good was your judgement as a teenager? Mine left something to be 
desired. My brother and I used to climb signal towers and look down at 
the trains passing underneath. Now I'm a safety manager. Remus had 
friends for the first time in his life, a force so powerful for a 
lonely and despised boy it is irresistible. 

Remus accepts the job as a teacher because he's good at it and needs a 
job badly, and with the potion, which he takes faithfully until he's 
under enormous stress, he can perform his teaching duties well and 
safely.

You say "forget" like Remus was a homeless TB case who sells his INH 
pills or an HIV patient who doesn't follow the regimen. Remus didn't 
exactly blow it off while leafing through the _Daily Prophet_.

I know who I'd rather have for a teacher.