Lupin is worse was 'Re: Are there no depths

[Justine]

No: HPFGUIDX 99463

Pippin:
Greatness isn't synonymous with  goodness, that's for sure.

Justine:
It certainly can be, though.  My last post (98769) went through the different synonyms and the nouns for which the adjective "great" has been used.  I think, in the context of Jo's quote about Remus, greatness *does* seem to equal goodness.  When Ollivander talks of great things, he also uses the adjective "terrible," and he's talking about an extremely evil wizard.  When the Sorting Hat speaks of greatness, he's talking about placing Harry in Slytherin, and that house as a rather terrible connotation as well, doesn't it?  When she uses the word for Remus, she's also calling him a wonderful teacher and a nice man.  I'm too tired to coherently type what I'm thinking, so I'll direct you to Renee (99421, in which my name is mentioned... that made me smile!).  She is, of course, not the only one I agree with, but her post sums up my thinking at the moment.
 
Here's a quote:
If you had to choose one teacher from your books to teach your child, who would it be and why? 
A. It would be Professor Lupin, because he is kind, clever, and gives very interesting lessons.
http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/quickquotes/articles/2000/0200-scholastic-chat.htm
Justine:
There's the word "kind."  That's even better than great, because it has no negative connotations, and better than nice, because it strongly implies there's positive emotion behind it.
Here's one more:
Professor Lupin, who appears in the third book, is one of my favourite characters. He’s a damaged person, literally and metaphorically. I think it’s important for children to know that adults, too, have their problems, that they struggle. His being a werewolf is a metaphor for people’s reactions to illness and disability.
http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/quickquotes/articles/2002/1102-fraser-scotsman.htmlJustine:
Remus is the wizarding world's version of a child who has been given a blood transfusion and has contracted AIDS, especially when thinking of the 80s when so many were afraid to even be in a room with someone who had it.  Wouldn't turning Remus into a traitor equal telling these children that such reactions are acceptable and even right?
 
Cheers,
Justine

		
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