[HPforGrownups] Could Lupin have been asked to resign?

[Cassy Ferris]

No: HPFGUIDX 158857


--- wynnleaf <fairwynn at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Was Lupin asked to resign?
 
<big snip>
 
> Lupin had just told Harry that he was primarily
> leaving because of 
> Snape's revelation that he was a werewolf and had
> commented on the 
> Patronus and given Harry the map back. Dumbledore
> came to the door 
> and said, "Your carriage is at the gates, Remus."
> Lupin thanks 
> Dumbledore, says goodbye to Harry, and then said to 
> Dumbledore, "Headmaster, there is no need to see me
> to the gates, I 
> can manage..." and then "Harry had the impression
> that 
> Lupin wanted to leave as quickly as possible." Then
> "Good-bye, then, 
> Remus," said Dumbledore soberly. And they shake
> hands and Lupin 
> leaves.
> 
> We know that Lupin and Dumbledore had a conversation
> earlier in the 
> morning.  But at this point the only thing we can
> see of 
> Dumbledore's demeanor is that his comments are quite
> brief and his 
> goodbye is said "soberly." And Lupin seems to want
> to leave quickly 
> and doesn't want Dumbledore to follow him to the
> gates. I guess what 
> I found interesting is that Lupin really doesn't
> want to spend any 
> more time talking to Dumbledore than he has to, and
> that Dumbledore 
> doesn't look particularly regretful about Lupin
> leaving. Dumbledore 
> is left with Harry and says nothing that reflects
> any of his 
> thoughts on Lupin leaving.
> 
<snip>

Cassy:

Funny thing, I read a theory that is absolutely
opposite to yours - that Dumbledore actually tried to
persuade Lupin to stay. The backstory behind that
theory was that Dumbledore deliberately allowed the
traitor and murderer (no matter, Sirius or Pettigrew)
to linger around Hogwarts freely, so that Harry could
eventually deal with him himself (as we know
Dumbledore did in the first book - allowed Harry to
confront Quirrel/Voldemort). So, when Lupin found out
about it, he was outraged by the risks taken by
Headmaster and resigned. And in the last scene
Dumbledore is somewhat ashamed, Lupin angry, so they
part not that amiably. 

Anyway, it's part of the large and somewhat paraniod
conspiracy theory called "Dumbledore's Big Game" that
claims that everything that happens in the books goes
according to Headmaster's plan to bring up Harry in a
way that would make him an ultimate weapon againt LV.
It is actually quite funny, because sometimes authors
make really far-fetched connections, like when in the
begining of the second year professor Sprout plants
mandrakes - which means Dumbledore is preparing for
the Basilisk beforehand. The really long essay on this
theory can me found on
http://big-game.livejournal.com/, only in Russian, sorry.

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