How has HBP effected your favorite characters?

[lupinlore]

No: HPFGUIDX 134569

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Tonks" <tonks_op at y...> wrote:
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> 
> I do like the fact that Tonks got her man!  That brings me some 
> comfort.  I like Lupin.  He is a kind, loving man.  And I always 
did 
> like older men. ;-)  So I approve of this match.  I liked the scene 
> where Arthur is talking to Lupin.  I liked that a lot.
> 
> There were parts early on where I was really mad at Harry.  I found 
> myself talking to him like "Harry, you fool!!  All these people 
> risking their life for you and what do you do!  First chance you 
> get, you sneak off to Knockturn Alley of all places!  Have you 
> learned nothing?!!"

Chuckle.  Harry certainly doesn't live his life to please other 
people.  Good for him!  The fact is, I don't think Harry will ever 
act the way a lot of people seem to want him to act.  It wouldn't be 
consistent with his nature.  It also wouldn't be consistent with 
being the hero of the story, which is more to the literary point.

 
> 
> And then when he gets this theory of Draco being a DE, I said  "oh 
> Harry, for god sakes, just *when* I ask you, have you *ever* been 
> right about any of these things!!  And here you go again!!"

Well, he was right this time, wasn't he?  Draco WAS a DE, or working 
for them which is the same thing from a practical point of view.  He 
may well have been right about Snape all along as well.  The fact is 
that when it comes to practical judgments about people, Harry may be 
shown to have had a clearer vision and a more practical wisdom than 
the isolated and too-ready-to-trust Dumbledore.

> 
> But he was OK later.  It was a bit odd that he didn't process his 
> grief over Sirius more, but we really didn't have time for that and 
> he *dealt* with it by projecting all the blame onto Snape.  So at 
> least that gave us an explanation instead of just leaving it 
hanging.
> 
> I like Snape even more, as odd as that might seem.  You have to 
> admire the man whatever side he is on.  He is very intelligent, can 
> worm his way out of almost anything, and can take control of any 
> situation.  Like others here have said Snape is a man of honor. He 
> followed through on the vow and if he did have a *deal* with DD to 
> kill him if things went very wrong and his cover would be blow, 
well 
> he did the hard thing and did it well. (I think that he is still 
> DD's man.  If DD said Snape is OK, I will take DD's word for it.)  
I 
> liked the second chapter and seeing the sisters and Snape as human 
> beings.  The bad guys are just like the rest of us.  They love 
their 
> family and children, they have a drink with friends, etc.  The only 
> difference is as JKR would say is the choices that they make.
> 

Except for Voldemort himself, who seems to have been twisted and evil 
from birth.  Shrug.  It happens, I suppose.


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