[HPforGrownups] Lupin always being sickly

[Lady Macbeth]

No: HPFGUIDX 77970

Severus Said:
>>> Sorry if this has already been asked.

    Lupin is always descibed as being a little worse for wear, or
unhealthy.  Do you think this is a result of not feeding on humans
at every full moon?  Or a result of the serious potion he has to
take?

     If it's the lack of fresh meat, I say the MOM should feed
Umbridge to him if it would help build his strength.<<<

Lady Macbeth:
Yuck.  I prefer the 'being fed to a box of starving blast-ended skrewts'
method myself. XD  Umbridge completely and totally disgusts me, and I'm
fairly certain that she'd taste disgusting to anything that might attempt to
eat her as well.  I had thought of tossing both her and Percy to the giant
squid, but I figured it'd take on bite and toss them both back up on shore.
XD

LOL That aside...

I think Lupin's being sickly has more to do with the physical and mental
toll that the transformation takes on him during each full moon.  Even with
the Wolfsbane Potion, he still transforms, and if anyone's ever spent time
truly looking at what that involves on the physical body and mental state of
the person it happens to, it's a wonder most of them survive it and NO
wonder that they go mad.

Then we pair that up with the fact that Lupin can't keep regular employment
and really can't even enjoy being a full member of society because of his
werewolf status - now he not only has the physical and mental trauma of the
transformation to deal with, but the knowledge that he's considered a
"monster" by society because of that transformation that he hates so much.

It's just a little more stress than anyone should really have to take, and
because Lupin IS taking it, and still trying to be a friend to Harry, a
member of the order, and a member of society, it's showing in his health.

-Lady Macbeth


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