Severus's memories and schoolyard curses (Was: Huge overreactions .. . .)

[M.Clifford]

No: HPFGUIDX 150387


> Carol wrote:
> And
> note that he arrogantly refuses to help Remus study Transfiguration,
> stating that *he* already knows that stuff. James's joking about the
> werewolf question, in a voice loud enough to cause Remus concern, 
> and his dismissal of Remus's lycanthropy as "your furry little 
> problem" do not connote compassion in my view.


Valky:
I read the part of the Pensieve scene that you're mentioning here,
Carol, very differently. 

There seems to me, to be an silent dialogue between Remus and Sirius
that becomes evident when the whole Worst Memory is finished playing out. 

I think that when Lupin says to Sirius, if you're really bored you can
test me on this, he's not saying that he really wants to study but
that he really wants Sirius to be distracted because he knows what is
likely to happen next is that Sirius and James are going to start
trouble for themselves for a kick.

So I expect that Remus really doesn't care as much about the impending
transfiguration exam as it seems, but far more about the harm his two
dearest friends are bound to do to themselves within the next few
minutes and he tries to change Sirius's mind, but can't.

Valky