Lupin's suffering (Was: Dumbledore's master plan)

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 138542

Larry wrote: 
> > Maybe some can correct me here, but Lupin's physical weakness
stems from his use of the potion. The other werewolf we have seen,
Fenrir Greyback, does not seem lacking in vigor. <snip>
> 
Kathy responded, quoting Lupin and the narrator:
>   "But I do not forget that during the year I taught at Hogwarts, 
> Severus made the Wolfsbane Potion for me every month, made it
perfectly, so that I did not have to *suffer* as I usually do at the
full moon".
> and another
> "He kept me healthy."
> and another
>> "Meanwhile Remus Lupin, who was thinner and more ragged-looking
than ever...."

Carol responds:
Exactly, Kathy. Lupin is thinner, more ragged looking, with more grey
hair, etc. in OoP and even more so in HBP (no more references to how
young he looks, as in PoA) because he *doesn't* have the Wolfbane
Potion to prevent him from suffering and unfortunately lacks the
potion-making skill to prepare it himself. (The inventor of the potion
would hardly have received the Order of Merlin if it were not a good
thing!) 

Also, of course, Umbridge has passed legislation making it impossible
for Lupin to get a job, and he has gone under cover with the
werewolves much as Snape went under cover with the DEs, adding to his
suffering by being like them. (How does he keep himself from killing
anyone when he transforms? Does he lock himself up inside 12 Grimauld
Place?)

He has no money. His robes get shabbier each time he transforms. He is
physically ill and weaker than he was at Hogwarts, where he had both
good meals and the Wolfbane Potion, which Snape "made, and made
perfectly," on Dumbledore's orders. Had he taken it before rushing out
into the Shrieking Shack in PoA, he would have transformed into a
harmless, docile werewolf instead of a savage one who endangered HRH.

As for Fenrir Grayback, he seems to have developed in the opposite
direction, becoming more beastlike even when it's not a full moon. I'm
not sure what Dark magic is at work there, but it's certainly not the
Wolfbane Potion, which is not Dark or DD would not have ordered Snape
to make it. It made Lupin's life *less* miserable for his short term
at Hogwarts and it kept the children safe during his monthly
transformations. (Too bad the curse on the DADA position ended that
idyll, but that's another thread.)

Carol, wishing that Sirius had left some money to Lupin, who really
needs it, instead of giving everything to Harry