Remus (actually)

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

No: HPFGUIDX 118759


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Sharon" <azriona at j...> wrote in
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/118695:

<< Catlady:
<<< I don't know if young Remus recognized the bullying as morally
wrong or merely as against the school rules. If he did (as Harry did,
and most of the reader do, but James, Sirius, Peter, and a number of 
their watching classmates did not), then he had a separate internal 
struggle between the fact that he liked those boys and the fact that
they were behaving in a very not-like-able way. >>>

I think it was also something of self-preservation.  "If I tell them 
That bullying is wrong, then I could very well be the next target."  
By remaining silent (and neither condoning nor condemning their 
actions), Remus is essentially keeping himself safe from being a 
target in the future. >>

Well, that does happen in real life. But it seems inconsistent to me
in this case. If Remus thought his friends would HURT him (would
attack him, not just stop liking him), then he didn't have much trust
in their loyalty and commitment to him. 

The loyalty and commitment that Sirius expressed in PoA in the
Shrieking Shack, when Sirius seemed quite sincere when he indicated
that he or James would have been willing to die to save each other, or
Peter, or Remus. (okay, he only SAID it about James and Peter, but he
LIVED it in his stupid 'clever' Secret Keeper switch -- he intended to
be a red herring to be caught and tortured to death by LV while the
real Secret Keeper was safely hidden to protect James.) 

But in that PoA scene, Remus acted like he was part of the same
loyalty and commitment: for no better reason than his loyalty to
Sirius and the late James, he was going to join Sirius in killing
Peter, thus switching 180 degrees from the first good job he's had in
his life to being a wanted criminal on the run or a captured criminal
in Azkaban.

So my strong emotional feeling is, if Remus did all that for a loyalty
that he didn't believe in, then Pippin is right about ESE!Lupin. Which
would be horrible, as I love poor dear brave kind competent ethical
Remus so much.