ANTIVIRUS - humble attempt of building a ship

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 129269

> --- 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..>>>>

Lindsay:
> 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.

Pippin:
Agreed. And on that basis I nominate OOP.  It  ties in with the
unconscious troll of the fifth obstacle guarding the Stone, and 
with the lethargy Harry manifests at the Dursleys. Fudge is 
complacent about Voldemort's return, Harry slacks off on studying 
occlumency, Sirius takes no responsibility for the condition of 
Grimmauld Place or his own health and can barely muster
the interest to be a responsible godfather, Snape is shown as a
neglectedyouth, Dumbledore leaves the teaching of occlumency 
to Snape, Arthur falls asleep on guard, Ron slights his duties as 
prefect,  and  Umbridge always gets others to do her dirty work. 

Counter examples of zeal are Molly's efforts to clean house,
the foundation of the DA, Hagrid's efforts with Grawp, Ron's 
persistence with Quidditch and the rescue by the Order.

As for PoA, that's the book of anger vs. temperance. Although Harry
has to deal with the gluttony of Dudley and dementors, and his own 
desire to hear his parents' voices again, it's anger that causes him
to lose control and blow up Aunt Marge. Harry shows he has learned 
temperence when he is able to keep from killing Sirius, and later 
when he stops the killing of Pettigrew.

IMO, the source of Lupin's passivity is not sloth -- it's anger.
Passive aggressive behavior has been his hallmark since he was a
child, pretending to go along with the rules while secretly 
disobeying them,  and as he says, he hasn't changed. 

If he's secretly evil Lupin, then anger is even more obviously the
theme of the book, but we won't know that for a while. 

Pippin