DD putting his foot down (was: Hagrid's Tale)

[pippin_999]

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> > > Alla:> > That is the thing though. Would it have 
been the RIGHT thing  if Lupin would have resigned? 
Sure, it was VERY dangerous for him to run around 
without Wolfsbane, but as someone suggested - the 
circumstances were SO very far from ordinary and so 
very not likely to be repeated again

I think that now Lupin is unlikely to forget about the 
Wolfsbane ever in his life, although again as I 
mentioned earlier if you have to take medication all 
your life, you ARE likely to forget about it sometimes 
under far less stressful circumstances, IMO.>

 Pippin:Well, which is it? Can Dumbledore reasonably 
expect that Lupin would never forget his potion again, 
or not? Lupin didn't *choose* to forget about his 
potion, in your scenario,  so how could he make a 
better choice next time?

 It's possible that Lupin was on his second chance 
already, because of the prank. But even if that's not 
so, the one thing that seems to light Dumbledore's fuse 
is a physical threat to a student. Regardless of how 
extraordinary the circumstances were, (and there has 
never been a year at Hogwarts when the circumstances 
weren't somehow extraordinary) Lupin's first 
responsibility in loco parentis was  the safety of his 
students. He kept three of them in the Shrieking Shack 
for at least an hour, refusing to allow Ron to go back 
to the castle ("You're going to hear me out, Ron") out 
of bounds, after dark, in the presence of a werewolf 
and a wizard who killed at least a dozen people with a 
single  curse (whether that wizard was Sirius or
Pettigrew).

 Dumbledore seems to have believed that Lupin was 
trying to save their lives. But it was still 
extraordinarily foolish for Lupin to have tried to deal 
with the situation all by himself, especially if, as an 
Order member, he could easily have communicated with 
Dumbledore. Dumbledore did not refuse to accept Lupin's 
resignation, and I think if Lupin hadn't offered it, he 
would have been sacked.

Pippin