[HPforGrownups] Re: Are there no depths to which Siriophiles wont sink?

[Iggy McSnurd]

No: HPFGUIDX 99304

>Pippin
>
>What about when he showed his Dark Mark to Fudge? All this 
>ambiguity about whether Snape or Sirius is worse is very clever 
>work on JKR's part, since it distracts us from Lupin who was 
>worse than either of them. There is no question that he thought 
>what he was doing was wrong and he continued to do it.
>

Iggy here.

I must admit to some confusion.  How is Lupin worse than either Sirius
or Snape?  It's my opinion that he was not only the most responsible of
the Marauders, but he's also the only adult (with the possible exception
of Prof. MacGonagall) who actually cares about Harry and tries to watch
over him with a truly level head.

Sirius and Snape both see/saw Harry as a young James

Dumbledore allowed himself to be blinded by his own emotions so far as
Harry is concerned.

Molly is overprotective of him.

Arthur... well, ok... add Arthur to the list with Lupin and Minerva...
He actually has a moderately realistic idea of what Harry's capable and
who he is.

Hagrid places too much on Harry's shoulders and asks him to accept a
lot... even if it's upholding Hagrid's expectations of him.

Petunia and Vernon only care for him because they don't really have much
choice.

Fudge has professed to be watching out for Harry (in PoA) but actually
fears him (as shown in GoF and OotP.)

Fake!Moody watched out for Harry, but only to deliver him to Voldemort,
and we don't really know HOW the real Moody thinks of him.

Tonks likes Harry, but she, IMHO, sees him as a little brother type of
person who she likes and is friends with, but knows she'd have her work
too cut out for her to watch over him alone and would rather be part of
a team helping him.  (My own speculation from what I read in OotP.)


All in all, I don't really see how Lupin is worse than any of these
people...

Iggy McSnurd