Detached?Lupin

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 119073


Pippin:
>  > I've assumed that Lupin would have to  hate his former 
friends to turn against them. But what if he only had to become 
detached? We've certainly seen lots of examples of that in 
canon. All  thosetimes he speaks "lightly" or "evenly" about 
things which ought to be very upsetting,  we've taken it that he's 
concealing his feelings. But what if he isn't? What if he's 
detaching himself?<<

> Olivier
> I wasn't too convinced by that and for a good reason. In OoP, I 
was  unable to find even one instance of Lupin speaking either 
lightly nor  evenly. <

Pippin:
Once JKR has established a character's pattern of speech, does 
she have to keep repeating herself? Or can she do what 
English-speaking writers are encouraged to do, and keep the 
adverb tags to a minimum when constructing dialogue?

 What tone of voice do you impute to "I need scarcely say that I 
failed dismally." ?  (OOP ch 9)   

 Lupin failed as a prefect and he treats that very lightly. That he 
knows he shouldn't is  brought up  in chapter 29, when Lupin 
explains, in inverted order, that he should have told Sirius and 
James that they were out of order and should lay off Snape,  but 
he didn't, because everyone thought that being arrogant berks 
was  the height of cool. 

Lupin comforts other characters when it won't cost him anything 
to do so... but he detaches from people and creatures all too 
easily. Look at the way he disposes of the dark creatures he 
cared for in PoA, compared to the way everyone else feels about 
losing their pets in that book.  

We haven't seen the side of Peter's character that made James, 
Sirius and Lupin want to be his friend, but we do know that Lupin 
was able to set that aside in less than an hour without even 
hearing Peter's side of the story (I don't count a confession 
extracted under duress.)

 He stopped Harry from going through the veil, but then let him 
go after the equally lethal Bellatrix. Why?


Of course Lupin isn't wholly evil, nobody is. Evil in the Potterverse 
is a *social* problem. You can't pin it down to one person. The 
Death Eaters as individuals aren't altogether evil, even 
Voldemort is not, but the Death Eaters as a group definitely are.
And Lupin is one of them, or I'm a hobbit.

Pippin
who isn't a hobbit despite using a hobbit name