Re-reading COS : questions

[laylalast]

No: HPFGUIDX 94951

> Carol:
> > I find Aesha's response interesting in light of JKR's revelation 
> that
> > Remus Lupin is a half blood. Did JKR mean that Lupin is
> > a) a "half and half" like Seamus?
> > b) half pureblood, half Muggle-born like Harry?
> > or c) half witch/wizard, half werewolf like--well, like nobody 
> else we
> > know in the WW.
> > But option C could account for his having a werewolflike last 
name,
> > and, as I postulated elsewhere in a post that no one responded 
to, 
> it
> > could have been his father who bit him. (Reactions, anybody? 
Don't
> > bite me!)
> 
> 
> Steffy:
> It makes sense to me about Option C.  In PoA, Lupin says that it 
was 
> a foolish mistake to get bitten.  Why would it have been a foolish 
> mistake?  Surely not because he accidently got bitten at a young 
> age, when he was too young to understand.  Maybe it was foolish 
> because he knew not to come too near his father during a certain 
> time each month?

Lilian here:

Where does Lupin actually say that it was a foolish mistake to get 
bitten? All I could find (quickly) was:

"....None of this could have happened if I hadn't been bitten ... 
and if I hadn't been so foolhardy ..."

I take the last remark to mean that he should not have been so 
foolhardy to come to Hogwarts although he was a werewolf (both as a 
student and as a teacher).

Did I miss something?

Lilian