Lupin and Legilimency: Why Wait to Reveal?

[quigonginger]

No: HPFGUIDX 129919

> > Ginger (previously) thinks Lupin is a huggybunny.
> 
> Pippin:
> Huggybunny my foot. But since Jen asked for explanations 
> other than  EverSoEvil!Lupin, I'll just point out that 
> Sirius's suspicion of his old friend isn't the only thing
> besides legilimency/occlumency that needs explaining.
> In no particular order:

Ginger interrupts:  Actually, Pippin, the "huggybunny" term was 
coined in association with Lupin in an offlist e-mail.  Allow me to 
quote myself:

I love Lupin and I think he is the huggiest bunny in the bunch and 
wouldn't hurt a fly.  I also think that ESE!Lupin is the most amazing 
reading of canon I have seen for proving something that I will never 
believe.  Pippin has almost had me yelling "I see the light!" on more 
than one occasion.  Then I return to my senses. 

end quote.  So, that said, I will make a feeble attempt to answer 
your questions:
 
Q:> Why does Lupin seem unaffected by the dementor on the 
> train?
A:  He had chocolate, and he knew how to use it.

Q:> What was Lupin doing for twelve years between GH and
> Book Three?
A:  Transforming into a werewolf, filling out job applications, 
darning his robes...

Q:> Why is he afraid of  Trelawney?
A:  I didn't read it as being afraid of her specificly, only (in her 
perspective) fleeing when she offered to crystal gaze for him.  I 
think she was implying a *private* reading.  Up close and personal.  
Two options here.  1) She is for real and would find out that he was 
aware of Black's animagus status.  2) She is a fraud and would find 
something that would require further and more intimate readings.  As 
others have said, it is a smart bachelor who flees the reading of his 
private crystals.

Q:> What's so funny about a cockroach?
A: Maybe he has a funny memory of cockroach clusters. (Don't ask me 
to fathom the mind of a werewolf<g>)

Q:> Is his boggart really a full moon or does the "silvery orb" 
> represent something else?
A: He did say in the Shack that it was the moon.  And of course we 
can trust everything he says. <beg>

Q:> Why is Lupin absent on Christmas day in PoA when
> it shouldn't be full moon yet?
A: He was suffering from PMS (pre-moon-syndrome)

Q:> How predictable is the period of transformation?
> If it's not predictable, how could the prank work?
A: Hmm, this sounds like a question for the ESE!Sirius gang.  After 
all, Lupin was an innocent bystander. <g>  I would think that seeing 
as he only kept his mind under the influence of Wolfsbane (a recent 
development), that during the Shack days he would not have been in a 
mode to take notes.  Hard without opposable thumbs and a lucid mind.

Q:> Why did Snape think Lupin was in on the prank?
A:  Well, coming from a guy who thought Harry should be banned from 
Quidditch just because he was there when Mrs Norris was found, I'd 
say "guilt by association" is in keeping with Snape's character.

Q:> Why isn't Lupin in any of Harry's photos?
A:  He's camera-shy?  (I also liked the suggestion that he was the 
one taking them)

Q:> Why wasn't Lupin at Harry's christening?
A: JKR took the fun out of this one-it was a rushed affair, per her 
website.

Q:> What is Lupin doing for the Order?
A: Keeping Sirius out of trouble.  Probably reaching out to other 
werewolves.  Fetching Harry.  Probably doing a lot of fetching.  
Lupine, canine, same general idea.  Good for fetching.

Q:> Why does Lupin's case say "Professor R.
> J. Lupin" in peeling gold letters, if he's never had
> paid work?
A: The man's an optomist.  Although it could have belonged to his 
twin, Romulus Jack. (who went to school elsewhere)

Q:> When Lupin leapt between Harry and Malfoy at
> the ministry battle, why didn't Malfoy curse him?
A:  Let's see.  Harry had just "blasted Malfoy off his back", and 
Lupin jumped in before Malfoy "could draw breath to strike".  I'd say 
Harry had knocked the wind out of Malfoy.  Harry and Neville turn and 
run after this.  Lupin may have had Malfoy at wand-point.  Shades 
of "go ahead, make my day".

As you can tell, I'm pulling most of this out of thin air.  Whatever 
it takes to keep you going on the topic.  Looking forward to your 
future posts on the subject.

Ginger, digging out the old SLURP badge.