Is Snape right about Remus

[leslie41]

No: HPFGUIDX 135137

Remus *is* weak to a certain degree--JRK admits this in a 2003 
interview.

"...he's someone that also has a failing, because although he is a 
wonderful teacher (one I myself would have like to have had as a 
teacher) and a wonderful man, he does like to be liked and that's 
where he slips up. he's been disliked so often that he's always so 
pleased to have friends, so he cuts them an awful lot of slack." 

Snape may not exactly be a "friend," but Lupin is loathe to take a 
stand against anyone.  He knows what it's like to be hated blindly.  
Unlike Sirius, he always calls Snape "Severus," and is friendly to 
him.  

Lupin also feels some guilt.  He did not stand up against his friends, 
as Lily did, when they tormented Snape, though it's obvious he didn't like the fact that they were doing it.  And he did nearly kill Snape, 
albeit not by his own design and when he was a werewolf.    

Remus' "weakness" is that he unfailinging cuts everyone slack...except 
himself.  


Leslie41.