ANTIVIRUS - humble attempt of building a ship

[Lindsay!!]

No: HPFGUIDX 129241

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Shanoah Alkire" 
<Arcum_Dagsson at c...> wrote:
<<<> Exactly. And it is important to remember that he has his virtues as
> well. He is a good teacher, has a good mischevous streak, and
> obviously inspired enough loyalty in his friends for them to become
> unregistered animagi. And he's certainly not Ever-So-Evil. He's just
> Loony Loopy Lazy[1] Lupin..>>>>

I have to disagree with equating Lupin with Sloth. Sloth is 
wastefulness and laziness, yes, but there is still much more to this. 
It also includes cowardice, lack of imagination, complacency and lack 
of responsibility. One, I don't believe that Lupin is lazy so much as 
he is ill. Lycanthropy does have a tremendous effect on him physically, 
mentally. In that respect he seems to more readily equated with a leper-
-shunned by his society, "unclean", and frail/ill. He isn't lazy when 
he is sleeping on the train as much as tired from the disease he 
suffers from. It also doesn't show a lack of responsibility because he 
had no way of knowing what would happen and when he was made aware he 
helped...I guess it's all how you look at it. In other respects his 
sleeping could also be less symbolic and more as a plot device to have 
Harry, Hermione and Ron be in the same compartment thinking they are 
alone and the sleeping man isn't to them. Also, Lupin is highly 
imaginative in his classes so he doesn't possess that trait either. He 
is also hardly a coward in PoA as he does what he can to face Peter and 
protect the others (yes here he was a bit irresponisble not taking the 
potion and what have you, but it was for the 'greater good' that he 
allowed himself to be turned astray--sloth also applies to the goals of 
ones heart and that certainly wasn't his goal). I don't believe Lupin 
is complacent since he does try to overcome his affliction but is cast 
down by the society (again more along the lines of leper if we're 
equating him wiht something along these lines). Not registering as 
animagi is irresponsibility on the other marauders parts not Remus's. 
It wasn't his sole decision and we don't know that he didn't put up 
some fight in this area. I just don't see him as sloth. Perhaps envy 
over his lot in life versus others. Is he flawed most definitely, but 
to err is human...I feel he isn't someone who has commited or 
represents a cardinal sin (which means damnation if one is not absolved 
of it) as just a person with flaws like anyone else. 

Lindsay 
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