[HPforGrownups] Re: Remus is the worst

[Rebecca Stephens]

No: HPFGUIDX 99416


--- potioncat <willsonkmom at msn.com> wrote:
>  
> > Ally:
> > 
> > I think Remus is worse.  When I think of Remus, I
> think of the 
> person 
> > in the South during Jim Crow who didn't believe
> the races were 
> > unequal but stood by and watched a lynching occur.
>  I think of the 
> > German citizens in WWII who had nothing against
> the Jews but 
> didn't 
> > speak out when a jewish neighbor was carted off to
> a concentration 
> > camp.
> > 
> > 
> 
> Potioncat:
> I understand what you're saying, but I disagree
> about Lupin.  He 
> would not be in the Order if he was that type of
> coward.  Yes, as a 
> teen he was unable to stand up to friends. As an
> adult he was afraid 
> to tell DD about some of his past, but he faced
> Pettigrew and Black 
> when he thought they were attacking Harry. 
> Potioncat (who agrees Lupin is flawed, but who
> isn't?)


I'd like to use Dumbledore's comments from the end of
PS. He was proud of Neville, and told Neville that it
took a special kind of courage to stand up to ones
friends.

That's where Remus fails.  He can stand against an
enemy, but not a friend.  He's too afraid of losing
that friendship to challege those friends when they do
something horribly wrong.  Likewise, he's too afraid
of losing Dumbledore's respect to tell him about the
secret passage.  He let Snape be terrorized and he put
Harry life at more risk (well, technically he didn't,
but he didnt' know that) because of that.


Rebecca


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