Crying Wolf?

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No: HPFGUIDX 81878

Kneasy wrote:
>>The most important things about him are notthe general knowledge 
associated with werewolves, but the facts about Remus Lupin as an 
individual. For example, he is seemingly unaffected by Dementors. Why? >>

Probably because he's experienced in the field and an expert in DADA, as evidenced by his role as a Professor. Anybody who had only seen Harry face the Dementors after he learned to produce a Patronus Charm might think that Harry was unaffected, but they'd be wrong. Harry simply learns how to cope, though knowledge I'm pretty sure Lupin also has, seeing as how he taught it to Harry. 

>>While a pupil Lupin was supposed to be locked up in the Shack at full 
moon, but we know he cavorted around the countryside with the boys in 
animal form. This was stupid and fraught with peril, not least to 
Lupin. If something had gone wrong, who would have suffered most? 
Lupin. Yet they all considered it good fun and Lupin never asked the 
others to keep him safe when he was not himself. Surely one of the 
prime concerns of any werewolf.<<

Lupin himself mentions how foolish this was, and it seems like general teenage irresponsibility, no more ominious (and no less blameworthy) than James' and Sirius' pranks. 

>>Some of his reactions to events are puzzling, too. At the Shrieking 
Shack he seems to know, before being told, what Sirius' story is. How? <<

Because the Marauder's Map shows Peter Pettigrew in there as well as Sirius Black, which means that the version of events Lupin had long believed had to be wrong, and once he knew that, he was able to draw what were -- for him, knowing what he did about the past -- fairly obvious conclusions.

>>On entering, his first action is to disarm Harry. Why? Does he really 
believe that at age 13 Harry could perform an AK?<<

Who knows? At any rate, even if Harry can't kill Sirius at this point, he might easily be able to hurt him -- and the most important thing at that moment is getting the truth, which he can't get from an unconscious/stunned/injured Sirius, and also can't get from anyone else. 

>>It requires no persuasion by Sirius before Lupin accepts his story, 
even though for twelve years the entire WW, including Dumbledore, has been confident of Sirius' guilt.<<

Once again: Peter Pettigrew is alive. Lupin knows it because of the map he helped make himself; once this is true, the story Lupin believed for 12 years HAS to be false. 

>>Why the constant mention of his worn and aging appearance? Is this a 
normal werewolf effect?<<

Apparently. Certainly we have no evidence to the contrary. 

>>His part in the Ministry dust-uphas caused comment, too. He gets a 
mention when he bursts in with Moody, Tonks et al, then no more until 
Sirius takes his final curtain. Strange. Did he fight or was he up to 
something else? Did he throw the fatal spell? Some suspect so.<<

Some don't. 

>>It's still that name that bothers me. Unless, of course, his parents 
were also werewolves themselves. <<

I bet Dolores Umbridge's parents didn't know that she would turn out to be so misery-causing, and certainly Sirius Black's parents couldn't have predicted he'd turn out to be an animagus who turns into a dog. Names are frequently tinged with a bit of predestination in JKR's world. 



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