Lupin's touch

[mhbobbin]

No: HPFGUIDX 112301

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "kmcbears1" <karen at d...> wrote:
> > --- 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
> >
> As other's have stated, Lupin touches Harry after their 
relationship 
> develops.  In POA when Lupin reaches toward Harry, Harry has no 
> knowledge of the previous friendship between James, Lily and 
Lupin.  
> This incident occurred before Christmas.  It was during the first 
> Patronus lesson that Harry learned that Lupin was a friend of 
James.
> 
> Lupin did not have a "okay to touch" relationship with Harry at 
the 
> time he learned Harry heard Lily's voice when the dementors were 
> near.  Harry's and Lupin's relationship developed after Christmas 
and 
> the first Patronus lesson.  Lupin allows Harry to develop the 
> friendship and does not force himself on Harry as "friend of your 
> father therefore friend to you".
> 
> Lupin behaved as a responsible adult who knows how to relate to 
> teenagers.  
> 
> - Karen

mhbobbin:

That is not my impression at all. Maybe you could convince me of 
this in PoA but not in OotP.  What I see is JKR drawing more 
attention not less to the strangeness around Lupin and Harry. (I 
won't repeat my whole post as it was posted about the same time as 
this one.)  And then there are Lupin's parting words to Harry.  

mhbobbin