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

[marinafrants]

No: HPFGUIDX 78671

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jwcpgh" <jwcpgh at y...> wrote:
> --- 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? 

Oh, I'm not saying it's Remus' fault, I'm just raising another point 
for speculation.  As you say, this is a situation that we know very 
little about, since Harry wasn't around for most of it.  And I can 
easily believe that Remus talked to Dumbledore about it and 
Dumbledore blew him off.  But given Remus' history with Dumbledore, 
I can also believe that this was another situation where Remus 
backed down a little too easily.  If he did, he would've 
rationalized it to himself, just as he had rationalized his PoA 
actions to himself.  He may have told himself that he could give 
Sirius the needed support, so there was no reason to fight with 
Dumbledore about it.  Maybe that's why he moved into 12 GP, when we 
know from GoF that he has his own place.

> 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.

Yeah, but if he is, he's been doing it since early on in PoA, so I 
still don't think OOP represents a change in that regard.

Marina
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