Remus Lupin: Good man doing nothing (long!)

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 149269

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "horridporrid03" 
<horridporrid03 at ...> wrote:
> 
> He's so very polite and sensitive and a wonderful teacher and yet 
> he's remarkably laissez-faire  with Harry's physical and emotional 
> well being.  So how to respond to this seeming dichotomy?  There's 
a classic quote that I think sums up Lupin quite nicely: 
> 
> "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do 
> nothing." –Edmund Burke
> 
> Remus Lupin is a good man.  But he's an expert in doing nothing.

(snips rest of very good and interesting post)

Tonks:

Remus Lupin is a good man, as you say.  But he is not `doing 
nothing'.  He has a different style.  He is the introvert.  He is 
depressed.  He is down trodden.  He is poor.   He is an outcast of 
society.  Any one of those descriptions would portray a person who 
is not going to jump in and "save the day" like a superhero.  If we 
put them all together we get:
a depressed, introverted, downtrodden, poor, outcast.  He is a 
person that represents the powerless.  There are many of these folks 
in RL.  They have learned to just cope, to wait for the more 
powerful to act, to understand "their place".  And the brave among 
them when push comes to shove and no one else comes forward to save 
the day will, at great personal cost, take the risk (an a great risk 
it is) to come forward and do what must be done. 

Remus is doing his part in the fight against LV.  There are others 
that are good men doing nothing, but Remus is not one of them.

Tonks_op