Support for the ESE Lupin theory!

[lyraofjordan]

No: HPFGUIDX 123789


Snow previously:
> > <snip>
> > If Lupin keeps his mind as long as he has taken his potion the 
week
> > preceding the full moon, why did he attack Sirius after the
> Shrieking
> > Shack episode? Did Lupin forget to take the potion for the entire
> > week before the full moon? This potion sounds like any drug that
> > needs to be taken consistently to have the full effect but if one
> > dose is missed it doesn't nullify its total effect. 


> northsouth17:
> Unless it really needs to be takes *every* night that week, perhaps
> especially the night of the transformation. As far as I understood
> it, Lupin did not so much forget to take the potion, as ran off to
> the shack before Snape had shown up with it. He's just putting the
> blame squarely on himself, rather than going "Well, *Snape* hadn't
> shown up yet".
> 

Lyra:
I'm a Lupin fan, but this one fact has always bothered me about him. 
If your sanity, and the safety of those around you depends on you 
taking a medication, how could you possibly "forget" to take it? (OK, 
I've never been dependent on a medication, so I can't speak from 
experience, but it seems like the more important the medicine is, the 
more effort you'd put into making sure you took it). And I certainly 
don't think there's any reason to try to pin this one on Snape. Lupin 
is, presumably, an adult who is responsible for making sure he's 
taken the medication he needs, and if he has to go down to the 
dungeons to check on, so be it. Yes, he got carried away by the 
moment, presumably, but (since I can't buy ESELupin) neglecting the 
potion was certainly stupid and dangerous on his part.