Detached?Lupin

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No: HPFGUIDX 119174


> Pippin:
> This makes hash out of Lupin's speech to Harry in PoA ch 14 
> about not risking his life to go to Hogsmeade. If Sirius Black 
> wasn't dangerous, what was? 
>

Neri:
I don't doubt that Lupin consciously thought Sirius WAS guilty and 
dangerous. Only deep in his subconscious he could not accept it 
("Yes, I knew him. Or I thought I did"). So he rationalized the best 
compromise between his mind and his heart: not endangering Harry 
needlessly, but also not revealing the secret that would be Sirius' 
death sentence. In hindsight it was the correct compromise. It saved 
an innocent man's life.

 
> Pippin:
> Lupin was a prefect.  It *was* his responsibility.  

Neri:
Lupin would have probably agreed with you on this. He is that type. 
However, James was a headboy, and it was he (not Remus) who was the 
unregistered animagus. I'd say this is even more of a responsibility. 
Lupin revealing his best friends' secret would have been sneaking, 
which is regarded as morally lacking in British schools even when it 
is strictly proper.

Neri