How Close Are Harry and Lupin?

[khilari2000]

No: HPFGUIDX 96829

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> 
> Jen:
> The Marauders are completely tragic, and with Snape, make up a 
> generation of the WW lost at the hands of LV. But they are 
*already* 
> tragic to the nth degree--what purpose will adding more trauma 
serve 
> the story? We already have a protagonist, Snape, who was compelled 
> to do evil because he couldn't overcome his past, his tragic flaw. 
> Sure he's reformed, but the past is never very far away, is it? 
> 
> I don't know why I keep arguing against ESE!Lupin since we won't 
> know the truth 'til we read it, but there's just something 
> fundamentally wrong with having a *truly* trusted person betray 
> Harry, not Scabbers or Crouch!Moody, but someone who has been 
> a "good guy" since first introduced.

I agree that the marauders are tragic enough without ESE!Lupin. 
Personally I see him as the 'Benvolio' character. The quiet sensible 
one who fails to keep his more reckless friends out of danger. 
Benvolio is always the one I feel sorriest for in Romeo and Juliet 
because he loses both his friends to circumstances he could not 
avoid. I'm not saying Lupin is perfect, I know he isn't, but he is to 
a large extent the victim of circumstances.

Khilari.