[HPforGrownups] Is Snape right about Remus

[Ladi lyndi]

No: HPFGUIDX 135110

lupinlore  wrote:
 
They are scrupulously fair, reasonable, 
and patient.  Unfortunately those qualities can shade swiftly into 
indecisiveness, passivity, and (to use a very loaded word) out and 
out weakness.

I think Remus at the Xmas celebration is operating very close to the dividing line, and sometimes steps over it.  My response to his 
statement "I neither like nor dislike Severus Snape" was a snort 
followed by "Yeah, now tell me the one about the tooth fairy."  His 
statements "You are determined to hate him... And I understand" 
garnered the response from me, "Okay, I'm very impressed.  Now get 
your rear off the fence and join the rest of us in a world where we 
have to take sides, get our hands dirty, and put up with the 
consequences.  It won't kill your furry rear end if somebody actually gets mad and doesn't like you."


Lynn:
 
Well, actually, it could kill his furry rear end.  Remember, he's living with the werewolves and, since many are listening to Greyback, they could very easily be turned against him.  All it would take is a word from Snape.
 
I agree that Lupin is walking a line but I don't think it is the one you're referring to.  I think he's walking the line between total trust in Dumbledore's wisdom  and following it and questioning Dumbledore's wisdom.  He has a loyalty to Dumbledore because Dumbledore gave him a chance when others would not.  It does nothing to carry emotions that can cause devisiveness within the Order.  I think it is his loyalty to Dumbledore that causes him to be cautious in what he says rather than who he really is.
 
I think there is a strength to Lupin that we will hopefully see in the next book.


 

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