Remus Lupin boring? Elkins' musings.

[Ravenclaw Bookworm]

No: HPFGUIDX 127876


-- Elkins (quoted by Alla)
Even Lupin's compassion could, viewed in a certain light, make him
seem a little suspicious, because it's a compassion born of
sensitivity and insight, of the ability to "read" others, to deduce
other people's personal vulnerabilities and motives. Lupin's very
good at that; it's what makes him a good teacher. But that form of
sensitivity can also be a rather unnerving trait, particularly in a
paranoid situation, one in which there are *secrets* that must be
kept hidden. On a certain level, an emotionally astute individual
*is* a spy -- he knows your secrets...or at least he makes you feel
as if he does -- and I don't think that it did much for the others'
sense of security around Lupin. I think that his very sensitivity
probably made him seem suspect.

Bookworm:
Elkins' comments were posted in February 2002 – 4 months
before OoP was released.  Now that we know about Legilimency, this 
paragraph is even more provocative.

phoenixgod2000:
I personally think that J & S thought Remus was the spy suspect
simply by default. James and Sirius totally trusted each other and
they could not concieve of Peter being the spy. He was just too
timid. So if it was one of them, it must have been Lupin.

Bookworm:
Dumbledore suspected there was a spy *in the Order*.  It did not 
have to be one of the Marauders, it could have been someone else in 
the Order.  

Ravenclaw Bookworm <who loves Potioncat's description of Lupin 
as "bland as a fox">