Sectumsempra in the pensieve / or not

[M.Clifford]

No: HPFGUIDX 150384

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Magpie" <belviso at ...> wrote:
>
> > Valky:
> 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.
> 
><snip> socially he seems about as challenged as Seamus or Dean.
> 
> -m
>


Valky:
You're right, m, I am taking some liberty with the descriptions of
Lupin but its based based mostly on the things he says about himself
and his freindship with the marauders in POA and not on the pensieve
scene at all. There is his statement that he bit and scratched himself
during his terrible transformations as a child, I strongly doubt he
could have done this every month without it being something that
people noticed about his appearance at school. 

"My transformations in those days were -- were terrible. It is very
painful to turn into a werewolf. I was separated from humans to bite,
so I bit and scratched myself instead. " (PA18)

And then there is another quote in POA which I have looked for but I
can't find, I hope someone can find it for me, where Lupin remarks
that he could never have gotten through his years at Hogwarts if he
had not had such good friends who refused to judge him on his
appearance or something like that, I am paraphrasing from a very vague
memory. 

I have also translated Lupins nose in a book characterisitic not from
his adamant staring during the Pensieve scene but more from the rest
of the context where he worries about his performance in the DADA exam
and I take the liberty of assuming that when he says he was not as
clever and gifted as James and Sirius, but he got good marks anyway he
means that he worked hard academically to overcome his disadvantage in
being a werewolf and by extension that means that he studied a lot
more than his friends and a lot harder.

So I admit I am rawing a lot of inferences, but I think they are well
based. :)

Valky