Are there no depths to which Siriophiles wont sink?

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 99310

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Iggy McSnurd" 
<CoyotesChild at c...> wrote:
> >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.  <snip examples of Potterverse folk behaving badly<<

It's a matter of knowledge and intention. Lupin fully understands 
that going into Hogsmeade as a werewolf is putting innocent 
people at risk and that he should do more to stop Sirius and 
James from hexing Snape. As an adult, a teacher with 
responsibility for the students under his care, he knows   that he 
should tell Dumbledore about Sirius's animagus abilities. But he 
doesn't, not because he thinks that it is safer for Harry or 
Dumbledore not to know, but because he doesn't want to get 
himself in trouble. How is that watching over Harry with a level 
head? 

Lupin feels guilty, so he knows he's doing wrong, and he still 
does it. You can't make the excuse for him, as you can for Sirius, 
that he just didn't think it through, and you can't make the excuse, 
as you can for Snape, that he doesn't know better. You can't say 
that Lupin is too reckless or angry to know what he's doing.  

One may say in Lupin's defense that nothing really bad 
happened.  I don't buy it.  He has the ability to be a much better 
person than either Sirius or Snape, no question. But it's his 
choices that show what he is. And choices, Dumbledore tells us, 
should be judged by the nobility of our intentions, and not by the 
consequences which we could neither predict nor control.

Pippin