Let's talk about Lupin

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 146074


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> 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. 

Pippin:

Let me ask, if I'm right and Lupin was  turned by Voldemort,
forced to kill Sirius and cooperate with The Plan in order to keep 
this secret...isn't his behavior in HBP  just what you'd expect? 
Distant, stilted, non-committal, staring into the fire, and a sudden
wild outburst of emotion when it all goes wrong *again* (from the 
pov of a reluctant DE who was expecting Draco to fail and
Snape to die) and Dumbledore is killed? 


Pippin