[HPforGrownups] Re: Was Lupin there when Lilly died?/ Musings on FB&WTFT

[Richelle Votaw]

No: HPFGUIDX 45810

Eloise writes:

> I think his reaction is simply because he was close to James and Lily. He
> *wasn't* at their deaths, so Harry reliving it in front of him brings it
even
> closer home than it was before, makes real to him something he has
hitherto
> only imagined.

I also think that Lupin wasn't there when Lily and James died.  His reaction
is that of someone hearing the retelling of his close friends death for the
first time from someone who was actually there.  Harry, though these are
repressed memories, was there.  He's hearing the actual cries of Lily,
laughter of Voldemort, his father's last words to his mother (probably).

Also, is it possible there were a full moon that night?  I'm a bit too lazy
to run check  for whatever year that may have possibley been.  If so, he'd
have been a werewolf and unable to do anything about anything.  At this
point everyone still thought Sirius was the guilty one, and he had suspected
Sirius.  And if he'd been a werewolf he wouldn't have even been able to keep
an eye on him.  And he may have also felt guilty about that, even though
there was nothing he could've done.

Risti writes:

> First of all quickly, has it actually been confirmed by JKR that
> Crookshanks is at least part Kneazle?  I hear this rumour everywhere,
> but I've never actually read a statement.

I would swear it was confirmed, but I can't remember where I read it.  I
really do think I did read it, though.  I guess that's not much help.

> Second, what are everyone's guesses on which creature will come up in
> COMC in the next book.  My vote is for the Griffin, because of the
> line in the book, 'Though griffins are fierce, a handful of skilled
> wizards have been known to befriend one.'  If that's not a call out
> for Hagrid, I don't know what is.

Hmm, a Griffin is a possibility.  I definitely think some of these creatures
will turn up at some point, or JKR wouldn've spent so much time detailing
them.  I would like to see a Chimera.  Now *that* is a big, bad beast!

Richelle

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