Lupin and the comical cockroach

[deborahhbbrd]

No: HPFGUIDX 129975

Lupin transforms the full moon into a cockroach, but this is not
necessarily because of any humorous potential in the insect. It's
always been my impression that he chose a cockroach because they are
universally despised, thought of as dirty, loathsome, unwelcome ...
and as quickly as possible, trodden on with maximum malice.

Does the List agree that this is how he feels about his werewolf
status? And that his greatest wish would be to terminate it?
Personifying ... no, reifying ... no, insectifying it as a roach seems
to me to make perfect poetic, symbolic sense.

Deborah, happy to stick up for Lupin, but he mustn't come to rely on it