Parenting Harry (was: Re: I don't like him much)

[imamommy at sbcglobal.net]

No: HPFGUIDX 120082


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "eloise_herisson" 
<eloiseherisson at a...> wrote:
>Eloise wrote:

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> Lupin is present at school with Harry for only one year out of five 
> and at the end of it what does he do? *He gives him back the map*, 
> the map which he was "astounded" Harry hadn't handed in. Just
> because he was no longer a teacher he felt no obligation to keep it 
> from him,but by that act tacitly colluded with Harry's rule-
breaking 
> and possibly putting himself into danger again in the future. 
> McGonagall could fulfil the role, but for some reason seems less 
> involved, strange since she's Harry's head of house.

imamommy:

Well, he was "astounded" because Harry knows Sirius Black is 
(supposedly) hunting him.  The next sentence references the attack on 
Gryffindor tower after Neville lost the passwords.  

After the danger has passed, Lupin doesn't feel badly because there 
are no more mass murderers looking for Harry.  I think he is also 
overcome by nostalgia, and wants Harry to have this map that James 
and his friends made, and used together.  

imamommy