[HPforGrownups] Re: Conspiracy Theories

[Batchevra at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 96735

In a message dated 4/22/04 7:10:50 AM Eastern Daylight Time, vmonte at yahoo.com 
writes:
vmonte responds:
I enjoy reading the conspiracy theories as well.  I do think however, 
that JKR won't make someone that is close to Harry ESE.  I do think 
that there is something going on with Lupin (aside from being a 
werewolf) that he is hiding. Is he feeling guilty about something?  
Was he forced into doing something terrible as a youth? (What is the 
curse that makes you do things against your will?) 

I also don't like the way Lupin reacts during the penseive scene. It 
seems obvious that he doesn't like what the Potter gang are doing to 
Snape, yet he does nothing to stop it (I realize that he was a child 
in this scene). 

Lupin tells us in POA that his transformations into a werewolf was very 
painful, and that he didn't have a lot of friends because of his being a werewolf 
and the prejudice against him. That is why he told lies to Sirius, James and 
Peter about where he was when he transformed. He also tells us in POA that in 
their fifth year, Sirius, James and Peter were able to keep him company as 
animagi, OWLS are taken just before the end of the fifth year. Lupin in the 
Pensieve scene is finally able to joke about being a werewolf and Sirius and James 
laugh with him, how is he going to be able to tell them not to bother Snape in 
the next hour? He is afraid of losing their friendship. The Pensieve scene 
shows this very well. 

Batchevra


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