TBAY Remus Lupin Is Ever So Dead WAS TBAY: DIMINISHED CAPACITIES (was: Humpty-Dumptying the Bangs)

[Eileen]

No: HPFGUIDX 55072

"George, is there really a TBAY charter to protect
Abigail?" asks Eileen disapointedly. 

George shrugs his shoulders. "I don't think you want
to pick a quarrel with Abigail, whatever the charter
is. I've heard she's one tough cookie. They say she
once took on the MDDT by herself."

"But it's not fair. I wasn't proposing too much
carnage" says Eileen. "I only think Lupin will die.
And Dumbledore. And Hagrid. And possibly Snape. And
definitely Percy. And Voldemort. And Lucius Malfoy.
And Peter Pettigrew. And Mrs. Lestrange. And Fudge
will get his soul sucked out by a dementor. And sundry
other deaths."

There is a cry from the other side of the room.

"Oh, now you've done it," mutters George. 

But Abigail rushes to Eileen, hugs her and begins
dancing around the room.  "Dead!Lupin!  Dead!Lupin! 
You believe in him!"  Her eyes are gilttering with
excitement. "I thought I was the only one!  Oh, do you
think you could agree with me that Lupin is the
horrible book 5 death?  Could ya?  Could ya? Huh?"

Eileen runs her hand through her hair nervously.
"Yeah," she says. "Yeah., I think Lupin's time is up."

"We Need Badges!" cries Abigail in ecstacy. "Badges
and an Acronym!"

"I'm not sure I really want to wear a badge," says
Eileen. "I... like Lupin. Quite a bit."

"But you think he's going to die?"

"I've known he's going to die since his appearance in
PoA. Almost the first thing I thought about him was,
"Darkling I listen and for many a time I have been
half in love with easeful death." Lupin is already
dead in a way. Cut off from society. Cut off from
friends. Now cut off from Hogwarts and even,
throughout GoF, cut off from Harry. He only needs to
stop breathing to complete the process. And you know,
if we're going to take this thing seriously, either
Sirius or Lupin will die. Sirius is too much about
resurrection, of life beginning again. Lupin's hair is
greying, he looks tired. He's ready to take his rest.
I've been hoping it won't be a Book V death, that he'd
linger on a little, but your arguments are
oh-so-persuasive in that direction." Eileen pauses. "I
rather agree that JKR can't push all the deaths to the
last books, and Lupin is the only person I see who can
be quickly killed off. I think JKR could resolve
things so that by the end of OotP another character is
dead, but Lupin seems to already be in position. His
death though will have to be linked with Pettigrew,
since Lupin's thematic role is linked with Pettigrew.
I still think that silver hand might be a problem
here... And is Lupin unhappy enough to become a
ghost?"

Eileen

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