[HPforGrownups] Re: All about Lupin replies

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 122701

--- pippin_999 <foxmoth at qnet.com> wrote:
 
> You see the difference, I hope. Lupin not only fails to 
> acknowledge the actual damage he did, leaving Harry to blame 
> himself (so much for Lupin's vaunted sensitivity to Harry's 
> unspoken needs), he also fails to acknowledge any personal 
> responsibility. He blames the whole business on being a 
> werewolf,  which of course he can't help, and fails to 
> acknowledge, unlike Dumbledore, that his job is to manage his 
> condition, not use it as an excuse.


And of course, through implication he also manages to put the blame
on Snape for "outing" him to the Slytherins over breakfast, as if
that's the only reason he has to leave and he's just being big about
the whole thing.  

Managing his condition through the wolfsbane potion was a requirement
of his getting the job at Hogwarts, it would have been impossible for
Dumbledore to have hired him otherwise considering the very real
danger he would pose to students and villagers if he transformed. 
Regardless of the circumstances that resulted in his forgetting to
take the potion, the agreement was broken.  Lupin had to go.

More and more I think the "band of brothers" that was the Marauders
was an unhealthy one.  James was saved by getting himself a
girlfriend with both feet on the ground and a good brain.  Had Remus
and Sirius found themselves a couple of good sound intelligent girls,
they wouldn't have fallen into the trap of mutual distrust over who
was the spy in the Order or done the SK switch.

I'm betting a hundred galleons that we'll find out that Lily had
Pettigrew pegged right from Day One and that she thought he was a
little creep.  That's why he insisted on sitting between James and
Lily in the Order photo: to show devotion to James and because it
gave him a secret kick to bug Lily.

Magda


		
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