Maligning Lupin

[susanbones2003]

No: HPFGUIDX 149660

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Renee" <R.Vink2 at ...> wrote> >
> 
> Renee:
> 
> But what you seem to be saying now is that werewolves *are* bad, 
that
> the prejudice of the Wizarding World is justified, and that Lupin's
> tragedy is that he tried to be good, but failed. Failed, because 
the
> prejudice is justified and his attempt to be good was futile 
anyway,
> werewolves being bad and inevitably disruptive. (Which you ought to
> know isn't true, because there's such a thing as the Wolfsbane 
potion.) 
> 
> If you're really saying this, I'm afraid you've ceased to make 
sense
> to me. If I thought for a moment JKR had introduced the anti-
werewolf
> bias merely to justify it in the end, I'd have to conclude I'd been
> wasting my time on the series. Fortunately for me, I believe the 
contrary.
> 
> Renee

Wow,
You can really talk a good game. I feel bad now!  You really put me 
in my place! (Didn't you always want to hear someone on this site 
admit that!) I don't know if I can work out all the ends and outs 
of "what the series means" on my own but I think Lupin might turn 
out to be bad not because he's a werewolf (because he has tried to 
control his problem) or because he's got character flaws. I do know 
about wolfsbane but the werewolves Lupin is hanging with right now, 
they don't seem to be so keen on that. That kind of werewolf, well 
they are definitely bad. Don't you agree? The wolfsbane kind, they 
are like Lupin perhaps and are trying to pass in "society." They 
know they have a problem and are doing their best to control it. But 
how would you work the non-wolfsbane type into your society? I know 
you don't want Lupin to be bad because it would violate something 
you hold dear, but contemplating it can't hurt you!
Jen D.
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