Detached?Lupin

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 119258


Casey wrote:
> I love Lupin and don't see him as ESE. Still, I was very
> disturbed by the fact that everyone was looking for this known
> murderer yet Lupin kept important information about a possible way to
> capture him quiet. Lupin knew, like the rest, that Black would
> probably try to find Harry and still he never gave Dumbledore, or
> anyone, the information that Black was an animagis (sp?). Why? What
> could be served by keeping that bit of information a secret. Why put
> Harry at more risk than he had to? What better way to prove to the
> others that he, a werewolf, was to be trusted? Instead he kept his
> knowledge to himself putting, not only Harry, but every other
> student at risk.

Carol notes:
Not to mention that he knew that Black could get into Hogwarts through
secret passages and could well be hiding in the Shrieking Shack. Note
that while he kept the confiscated Marauder's Map, he didn't turn it
in to Dumbledore.

Carol, who sees Lupin as someone who knows the right thing to do but
is generally too weak to do it