Maligning Lupin

[Renee]

No: HPFGUIDX 149760

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at ...> wrote:
>
> Pippin:
> Werewolves attack people whom they believe are depriving them of their
> rights and freedoms.  YMMV.

Renee:
Such as the five year old Montgomery boy? Or little Remus Lupin,
because of an insult made by his father? 
> 
 
> > > Pippin:
> > > The rationale for Lupin joining Voldemort can be 
> > > foreseen in the Marauder outings and in his failure to report what 
> > > he knew about Sirius:
> > 
> > Christina:
> > 
> > I still feel that this completely ignores the reasons behind
Lupin's > > decisions. 
> 
> Pippin:
> The reasons aren't important. If you get in the habit of ignoring 
> danger signs, that's going to have a consequence.

Renee:
Of course the reasons are important. Of course ESE!Lupin needs a
motive to be plausible. Ignoring danger signs may be hazardous and
even lead to a premature demise, but to turn your back on the only
people who ever helped and friended you and side with their mortal
enemy it takes a stronger reason than a habit of recklesness.   


> > Renee:
> > > > werewolves are classified as non-human and considered Dark
Creatures.
> > >  
> > The official view of the Wizarding World is that werewolves *are*
> > different by virtue of being werewolves. 
> 
> Pippin:
> 
> I  don't think so.

Renee:
I do. We also read that werewolves are contstantly shunted between the
Beast and Being department of the Ministry. To me, this says they're
considered to be different. 


> Renee:
>  Even if a werewolf were to join Voldemort for reasons that had 
> nothing to do with his lycanthropy, the Wizarding World would 
> still maintain it did, instead of ascribing it to human fallibility.   
> 
> Pippin:
> Yes! Yes! And they'd be wrong. That's my point. Att the end of HP
and the Final
> Thrilling Conclusion, the Trio, assuming they survive, will know
> that, IMO. They'll know there isn't going to be an instant,
sugar-coated 
> After School Special solution to the problems of werewolves.
> But they will resolve (I think) to change attitudes that can be changed.
> 

Renee:
They'd be wrong, but - and now we're back to where we were a couple of
posts ago - they won't have any reason to change their minds about
werewolves. In order to do so they'd need an incentive in the form of
a good werewolf who has fought for the good cause. The Trio will
undoubtedly be resolved to make changes, but to make headway they need
an argument to convince the WW that werewolves deserve this change.
And who else bu Lupin is going to provide such an argument? 

Renee