[HPforGrownups] Re: What about Lupin?

[Becky Walkden]

No: HPFGUIDX 55555

Kathryn wrote:
However as I'm sure has been noted before - JKR has incorporated this whole
motif of blind prejudice and how wrong it is, including, but probably not
limited to, wizarding prejudices against muggles, muggleborns, giants,
werewolves .... It would surely undermine her effort to show how wrong these
prejudices are to make the only werewolf we've met actually turn out to be
evil. Since she's also shown us one heck of a lot of anti-Slytherin
prejudice by the Gryffindors this is alos a large part of my firm belief
that Snape might be an unpleasant person but he's also one of the good guys.
I will be sorely disappointed if all the Slytherins turn out to be evil and
all the Gryffindors are heroes.

Me:  I agree with you concerning both Lupin and Snape.  I also would like to point out that Lupin was one the "old crowd" that fought Voldemart and is highly trusted by Dumbledore.  There is no way he can be anything but one of the "good" guys.  I don't know how "good" I would say Snape is, but I think he'll do the right thing too.
The only bothersome thing about Lupin, and it IS a logical inconsistancy in the PoA storyline was him not telling Professor Dumbledore about Sirius being an Animagus and probably being able to use that and the secret enterance created specficially for Lupin to enter Hogswarts.  Now I know his reasons for not telling but they are hardly convincing.  This should have been such a compelling danger he would have confided in Dumbledore at least the first time Sirius entered the school and attacked the Fat Lady.  I mean, who would he have been protecting by not telling?  Not himself as he wasn't one of the animagus's and was only guilty by association.  Not James Potter.  He is dead.  Not Peter Pettigrew.  He thought Peter was dead.  Not Sirius Black as Lupin thought he was the traitor who betrayed the Potters and was now trying to kill Harry.  He had no reason not to tell Dumbledore about that.  Again, I don't think we can construct anything evil about Lupin concerning this fact.  I think it was basically just a logic error in the storyline.  Huggs Becky hitting her head against the door in punishment for suggesting anything "bad" about JKR





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