Detached?Lupin

[Jeanette]

No: HPFGUIDX 119083


Pipin wrote:
> 
> Lupin comforts other characters when it won't cost him anything 
> to do so... but he detaches from people and creatures all too 
> easily. 

   I think he has HAD to learn to detach himself from people; how 
often in his life do you think he has met someone he likes, who 
likes him and then has been flatly rejected when that person found 
out he was a werewolf. It must been devastating to have that  
repeated again and again, let alone to be endlessly fired from jobs 
you are good at (and you must admit, Lupin IS a good teacher.)

   However one of the main images of him that stick in my mind is 
Lupin quietly going over to the werewolf bite victim at the 
hospital.  He didn't need to, he could have stayed with his friends 
and Harry but he went and spent most of the time with the unhappy 
man.

Jeanette