[HPforGrownups] Re: Sectumsempra in the pensieve / or not

[Magpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 150380

> Valky:
We have proofs by contradiction that he would never be proud of
picking on something weaker or unfairly maligned, those proofs are his
friends. Including Lupin, who was everything that many Snapeoholics
are arguing was the one and only crime evident in Snape in the
Pensieve. Lupin was always as shabby and unkempt as Snape, he was
always as strange and quiet and staring at a book as Snape, Lupin was
the wierd unusual gawky boy who had no friends in first year, that
James befriended him is the absolute antithesis of a James who picked
on Snape for nothing. Lupin is the proof by contradiction that James =
empty headed Bully who picked on Snape for no reason - does not exist
IMHO.

Magpie:
I agree that James did not pick on Snape for nothing, but Lupin is not the 
way you've described him here.  There's nothing to indicate he's anything 
but a regular boy.  Quieter than James and Sirius, maybe, but that doesn't 
make him strange or quiet.  He's staring at his book to ignore what's going 
on in this scene, but there's no reason to think he spent all his time with 
his nose in a book otherwise. I don't have my books with me, but I can't 
remember "weird" "unusual" or "gawky" ever being used to describe Lupin.

And why would he be shabby and unkept?  He looks pale and drawn around the 
full moon, but that doesn't effect his ability to dress himself.  His 
clothes are shabby as an adult because he can't get a job; he doesn't wear 
shabby uniforms at school.

>From where I sat in the Pensieve it looked like Lupin was a cool kid, just 
not as flashy as James and Sirius.  He wasn't completely ordinary--his 
looking peaked once a month and his having a secret may have put on a vibe 
of there being something "different" about him that didn't put James off, 
but socially he seems about as challenged as Seamus or Dean.

-m