Nitwit? - Remus John Lupin

[littleleahstill]

No: HPFGUIDX 167994

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214" 
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> >> Alla:
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> Eh, no, that is not a fact that this is what Lupin did. I believe 
> that he was helping Neville first and foremost. Would it be 
clearer 
> if I say that Lupin did not **plan** to humiliate Snape? That this 
> is just unexpected consequence of him helping Neville?
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> Of course I am not arguing that Snape was **not** humiliated, sure 
> he was ( not nearly enough if you ask me), I am just saying that 
> this was not Lupin intent ( This is only my belief obviously that 
> those are Lupin's thoughts). 


Leah:
But defeating a boggart means ridiculing it, so once Lupin knew that 
Snape was Neville's boggart the humiliating of Snape would have 
followed on from that.  I see your point that until Neville spoke, 
Lupin would not have known about Boggart!Snape (though perhaps it 
couuld have been deduced, and we have had suggestions of Lupin using 
Leglimancy).  However,once he knew, Lupin could, as Carol suggests, 
deal with this boggart privately, but he prefers to press ahead and 
amuse everyone.  What I do see in this episode is another example of 
Lupin betraying someone who has helped him. Throughout POA, Snape, 
as Lupin himself admits later, made potion for him carefully and 
well, thus sparing Lupin a great deal of pain, distress and 
humiliation.  Just as Lupin betrayed DD's trust for some fun at 
school with the Marauders, he is happy to humiliate the man who is 
now helping him a great deal.  I don't on the whole go with the 
ESELupin theory, though I enjoy Pippin's arguments.  I don't think 
these are deliberate betrayals, but thoughtless ones, preferring the 
amusement and friendship of the moment to thinking about the wider 
implications of his actions.   What I wonder is whether in DH, 
another such moment will come along for Lupin.

Leah