The Timing of Lupin (long)

[alshainofthenorth]

No: HPFGUIDX 109856

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, mindy bindy <grapfnt at n...> 
wrote:
> I've read both the great theories on this thread and the "Whomping 
> Willow" thread and the thing that struck me most was that people 
> (especially Dumbledore) have gone to a lot of trouble for Lupin, 
and 
> it's somehow hard to see why. In a truly pragmatic sense, he hasn't 
so 
> far been worth that much risk.
> 
<Snip to conclusion> 

> Since then, he hasn't done anything of importance except stop Harry 
from 
> running through the archway.
> 
> The thing is (again) there's been a *lot* of effort made to train 
and 
> help this person/creature, and not much repayment. I don't believe 
the 
> ESE! theory (because I'm physically incapable) but all I see now is 
a 
> link to DD. I'd rather build something along the lines of "DD was a 
> werewolf but grew out of it" or "there's a big Lupin prophecy lying 
> around somewhere".

Alshain (apologies if this has come up before, it's been some days 
since I perused the Lupin thread):

We don't know yet what Lupin has been doing off-camera. Canon states 
that he was absent from Grimmauld Place for extended periods in the 
summer, away on Order business. He could be up to something that the 
others can't do; among the fanon ideas the most well-known is that he 
may be acting as Dumbledore's ambassador to Dark creatures in the UK 
and in Europe (or digging up magical objects of power, *affectionate 
smile at the thought of Professor Lupin rigged out as Indiana Jones*.)

But the main problem I see in your argument is that it would be 
extremely foreign and out of character for Dumbledore to think in 
terms of cost-efficiency calculus. He supports the Muggle-borns, the 
animals and centaurs in the Forbidden Forest, Hagrid and Lupin 
because he thinks it's the right and decent thing to do, not because 
he expects to be rewarded for it or as terms of a bargain.

Alshain