TBAY: Evil! McGonagall Revisited (WAS: Who Will Betray the Order?

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 83982

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "annemehr" <annemehr at y...> 
wrote:
> 
> > I submit that no evil character in Rowling ever gets off  a good 
> > line.<snip>
> > 
> > Pippin
> > who can't remember that  Lupin has ever said anything  funny
> 
> PoA ch. 19:
> 
> "No one's going to try and kill you until we've sorted a few things
> out," said Lupin.
> 
> Annemehr,
>  Lupin Apologist (if we're on?)


Jen:

I laughed at this one because of Lupin's dry humor:

"And this is Nymphadora--"
"Don't call me Nymphadora, Remus," said the young witch with a 
shudder. "It's Tonks."
"--Nymphadora Tonks, who prefers to be known by her surname only," 
finished Lupin.  (OOTP, US, chap. 3, p. 49)

Oh, and this too:

...Harry wished they would look at something other than him; it was 
as though he had suddenly been ushered onstage. He also wondered why 
so many of them were there.

"A surprising number of people volunteered to come and get you," 
said Lupin, as though he had read Harry's mind; the corners of his 
mouth twitched slighty. (OOTP, chap. 3, p. 50)


OK, it's not exactly Mad-Eye and buttocks-safety funny, but Lupin 
has his own subtle humor.

Jen, also a Lupin apologist and proud of it...