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

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No: HPFGUIDX 78647

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "marinafrants" <rusalka at i...> 
wrote:
> 
> Here's something to consider: was Remus aware of the damaging 
effect 
> that confinement at 12 Grimmauld Place was having on Sirius' mental 
> state?  If he did, why didn't he confront Dumbledore about it?

Laura:

Oh, no, something else that's Remus's fault...;-).  We don't know 
that he didn't-such a scene wouldn't appear unless it was being 
related to Harry by someone else (or he overheard it), right? 
Actually, I don't think DD paid the least bit of attention to 
anyone's emotional state in OoP, which was a terrible mistake on his 
part.  A little acknowledgement of Harry would have gone a long way 
toward calming Harry's anxiety, I think.  And if Remus tried to talk 
to DD about Sirius (assuming Remus felt that something so screamingly 
obvious needed to be brought to DD's attention at all), I would bet 
that DD shut him down.  DD just had too many larger problems on his 
hands to give his energy to relatively small ones like the emotional 
health of his allies.  (I'd argue that in reality, they're equally 
significant problems, but DD doesn't seem to see it that way.)  Remus 
himself, being at Grimmauld Place only sporadically himself, couldn't 
be the constant support that Sirius needed.  
> 
> Laura:
> I'd also 
> > argue, in Remus's favor, that although in PoA he still hasn't 
> brought 
> > himself to be completely forthright with DD (perhaps for Sirius's 
> > sake, which would mitigate the situation imo), he definitely 
seems 
> to 
> > have realized that he acted wrongly toward Snape.  His polite, 
> even 
> > deferential behavior toward SS suggests that. 

> Marina:

> Remus was consistently polite and deferential toward Snape 
> throughout PoA, too.  Polite and deferential appears to be Remus' 
> default manner toward everyone, his shield against the world that's 
> just looking for an excuse to brand him a monster even when he's in 
> human form.  Note that when he drops that pleasant manner, it's 
> always deliberate, and always produces the effect he wants to 
> produce.

Laura again:

I think that Remus goes out of his way with Snape, though.  He 
consistently refuses to let Snape bait him, despite Snape's continual 
efforts to do so.  Sure, politeness can be a weapon (see Remus's 
interaction with the Dursleys at the end of OoP).  But I really got 
the sense that he is paying extra attention to his relations with 
Severus.