Generation parallels/ Lupin's personality (WAS Re: Lupin as next Headmaster)

[marinafrants]

No: HPFGUIDX 78598

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jwcpgh" <jwcpgh at y...> wrote:
> The alternative is that Remus would allow Harry to be put at risk 
in 
> order to save his own reputation, and that's too harsh for me.  

I don't think it's his reputation he was trying to safeguard, but 
the bond of friendship and trust he had with Dumbledore.  Dumbledore 
put a great deal of faith in Remus, both when he accepted him as a 
student and when he took him on as a teacher.  Remus has spent his 
adult life alone, ostracized and mistrusted.  I can totally 
understand his inability to do anything that might jeopardize his to 
a man he regards as a friend and mentor.

Does this make him "morally deficient"?  That's a really loaded 
term, just like "cowardly" and "manipulative."  They all make it 
sound like I'm being much harsher on Remus than I really am.  He has 
done a number of things wrong, all due to a persistent weakness in 
his character which he recognizes and regrets, but seems unable to 
overcome.  Despite this weakness, I do believe he's a decent and 
compassionate man.  Remarkably so, given the life he's lived.  But 
this doesn't absolve him of the responsibility to try and overcome 
his weakness.  It's not enough to feel bad when you've done 
something wrong.  You have to learn to refrain from doing it over 
and over.

Marina
rusalka at ix.netcom.com