Let's talk about Lupin

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No: HPFGUIDX 146072

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Marg McKay-Lowndes" 
<lowndes at b...> wrote:
 
>  
> MML:
>  I agree that the relationship between Tonks and Lupin should serve
> some narrative purpose. Surely in this case, it is to mirror 
Ginny/Harry in
> that Harry chilvalrously breaks up with Ginny to protect her from 
LV in the
> same way that Lupin, despite genuine feelings for Tonks, will not 
be drawn
> into a relationship with her out of chivalrous regard (misplaced?) 
for her.
> IE, he cares for her so much that he doesn't want her to have to 
put up with
> the drawbacks of being with a werewolf. Perhaps the fact that they 
end up
> together foreshadows the Ginny/Harry pairing, in saying that 
despite the
> fact that Harry has to confront LV, he and Ginny will end up 
together just
> as Tonks and Lupin have, despite Lupin's werewolfness.
>  
> I don't think this comes out of left field, as we see early in the 
book that
> Tonks has a problem. She has a heart to heart with Molly early in 
the book,
> but the reader doesn't know what this is about at the time. 

Marianne:

All well and good, but from my perspective as a reader, I have not 
seen any indication of *Lupin's* feelings.  Yes, we see early and 
often that Tonks is laboring under some sort of problem.  But we see 
nothing of Lupin that suggests, IMO, that he's ever returned Tonks's 
feelings.  He's pensive by the fireside at Christmas, but that's 
when he seems most oddly un-Lupin-like to me.  All we seen from him 
directly with regards to his own feelings towards Tonks, and from 
his own mouth, is that he's tried to push her away.  

You may very well be right in all of your comments. But, to me, the 
case for a couple in love is lacking from the behavior and words of 
one half of the couple, which gets back to lindsay's original 
comments of this not being one of those pairings that's been 
foreshadowed. 

Marianne