Lupin's touch

[mhbobbin]

No: HPFGUIDX 112298

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "khinterberg" 
<khinterberg at y...> wrote:
> Sorry to be a bother but the yahoo search engine for messages 
doesn't
> seem to be very useful.  I am sure people have wondered on here 
before
> about why Lupin never touches Harry, and I was just wondering if
> someone could point me in the right direction of those posts? 
Thanks
> from the bottom of my HP-loving heart
> 
> khinterberg

mhbobbin writes:

I totally agree that there is something going on with Lupin, and 
that it manifests itself in the strangeness around whether or not 
Lupin should touch Harry. Unfortunately I can only reference my own 
post a couple weeks ago--110297--and some response around it. It's 
not much and there were no theories in that exchange. I was hoping 
that some other poster would know where other discussions on this 
are becuz there's got to be some.

There are examples of Lupin touching other students so the 
strangeness doesn't just happen around students.  In PoA we find 
Lupin going to touch Harry and then thinking better of it. Okay, not 
something that leaps off the page as strange. Yet. And he does tap 
Harry on the face after one of Harry's boggart fainting spells. Taps 
with his wand or with his hand? Didn't say. Hardly leaps off the 
page as a clue. Wouldn't look at it twice if it weren't for all of 
Lupin's emotional reactions to things Harry says. Shiver.

But it gets weird in OotP. There are three episodes where Lupin 
shakes hands. First at Privet Drive, he shakes Harry's hand. Next, 
at the train station, he shakes hands all round and claps Harry on 
the shoulder. And third, after Christmas when they get off the 
Knight Bus, Lupin AGAIN shakes hands all round, but "reaches" 
Harry.  The only time he actually shakes Harry's hand is in the one 
location that we learn has special protections--is that an exception 
that underlines that something strange is going on?
Yes, Lupin grabs Harry round the chest to prevent him from following 
Sirius into the Veil. That is an emergency but nothing odd happens. 
hmmm.

But the strangest part to me is Lupin's parting words to Harry at 
the end of OotP; "Keep in touch."  IMO, that looks like a JKR 
signpost, pointing at something. Don't know what is going on. I 
think Lupin holds at least one important secret that may not be 
revealed until the end. But I don't know yet what it is.

But as many Posters do not buy into anything going on here, I wanted 
to reply to khinterberg and say, YES! I thinks something is going on 
and if you figure it out, let me know.

mhbobbin