Lupin's touch

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 112342

"mhbobbin":

> I think there's more going on here than teacher / student or the 
> development of Harry's relationship with Lupin.
> 
> In PoA, we see more of Lupin's thought process --he wanted to reach 
> out to Harry but thought better of it--than we do in OotP where he 
> is less central to that part of the story. So Lupin thought better 
> of touching Harry. In that context, the reader accepts the statement 
> and doesn't question it. But this peculiar characteristic--unique to 
> LUpin and unique to Lupin's relationship to Harry--continues in 
> OotP.   I will continue to maintain that there is something 
> interesting in Lupin's parting words to Harry in OotP.

Finwitch:

Well, now that Harry knows Remus is one of the friends of his parents
- partly why he's close to Sirius as well - shaking hands is too
formal. Hugging would be too intimate, considering Harry's still
calling him Professor Lupin despite of Remus' insistence to call him
Remus... It's an awkward situation and Lupin doesn't know how to take
it. They could be close, if not for certain events- but the events ARE
there.

But I can imagine more: Lily's love-protection hurts a werewolf, even
if the werewolf in question is friendly and not a danger *at the
moment*, just because he'd be mortal danger once a moon? OTOH, Lupin
doesn't seem to feel pain when touching Harry (like saving him from
the Veil) Then again, he's probably good at hiding it, after all that
moonly practise for years.

Finwitch