Lupin's touch

[Pat]

No: HPFGUIDX 112368

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "finwitch" <finwitch at y...> 
wrote:
> > Lissa:
> > 
> > Does Lupin ask Harry to call him Remus?  For some reason I was
> thinking he never did.
> 
> Finwitch:
> In PoA, for the most part, he IS his teacher, but I seem to recall 
he
> *does* say something in lines of like: "I'm not your teacher 
anymore,
> Harry. Please call me Remus".
> 
[snip]
> 
> Finwitch

Pat here:

I looked at the end of POA--it sounds like you are talking about the 
part where Remus returns the invisibilty cloak to Harry when he is 
packing up his things to leave Hogwarts.

"Here--I brought this from the Shrieking Shack last night," he said, 
handing Harry back the Invisibility Cloak. "And..." He hesitated, 
then held out the Marauders's Map too. "I am no longer your teacher, 
so I don't feel guilty about giving you back this as well.  It's no 
use to me, and I daresay you, Ron, and Hermione will find uses for 
it."

There's a little more conversation about why the map makers would 
have wanted to lure Harry out of the school.  Then DD comes in to 
tell Remus his carriage is here.  Remus picks up his things, says 
good-bye, and tells Harry that "It has been a real pleasure teaching 
you.  I feel sure we'll meet again sometime."

>From there on, it is just Harry and DD discussing some of the recent 
events, but that's it.

It would have been nice if Remus had told Harry to call him by his 
first name, as it would have let Harry know that the door to a 
friendship was open.  But he just didn't do it.  Too bad, really.

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BTW--Lissa (this part has been snipped previously) but I think your 
assessment of Remus is quite good.  I'll just add that Harry isn't 
one to reach out to anyone either, given all those years of living 
with the Dursleys.  So, if Remus and Harry are ever going to be 
close, I think Remus, as the adult, will have to be the one to 
intitiate it.  I have hopes for that, after the ending of OotP, 
where Arthur, Mad-eye and Remus are telling Harry to stay in touch 
and letting Vernon know that they'll show up if they don't hear from 
Harry every 3 days.  It would be nice if Harry and Remus would send 
a few owls to each other--Harry needs to talk to someone who was 
close to his parents and to Sirius, and that leaves Remus.  Well, 
Peter, too--but I doubt that Harry wants to talk to him.

Remus has always been one of my favorite characters, especially 
after OotP.  I do hope that he will be closer to Harry in the next 
two books.  Harry really needs someone who connects him to his 
parents.

Pat