Nitwit? - Remus John Lupin

[lupinlore]

No: HPFGUIDX 168021

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at ...> 
wrote:

> > 
> 
> Pippin:
> I'd say she has a lot more to worry about on that score if it will
> be found that Harry is correct in his suspicions about Snape, since 
> Harry has expressed far more bias towards Snape than Snape has 
> ever expressed towards Lupin.
> 

I'd say she already has a lot worse to worry about, when it comes to 
endorsing things -- like child abuse by teachers and epitomes of 
goodness that approve of it.  But I doubt JKR really thinks very 
deeply about such things -- and therein lies much of her weakness, in 
that so much of that is in the category of background/world 
building/consistency of character, which is where she falls flat on 
her face much of the time.

Bias is perhaps not the best way to look at this, since although 
technically it doesn't connote prejudice, I suspect most people these 
days DO link bias with prejudice.  I don't think the attitudes of any 
of these three towards each other is the result of prejudice, despite 
Lupin's use of the term, but rather of resentment -- i.e. the result 
of very specific injustices inflicted.  That is not to say that they 
may not be prejudiced, but their attitudes aren't as simple as 
unreasoning dislike (which, although it may not be the technical 
definition of prejudice, is how most people seem to use the term).  
Draco is a much better model of prejudice than Harry or even Snapey-
poo.  So is Umbridge.

Maybe all three of them should just go at each other with nerf bats.  
It would certainly help Snapey-poo, as he seems perpetually 
frustrated by hating a dead man and a wet wolf pelt.

Lupinlore, who would be vastly amused by a nerf-bat scene in DH, if 
only for its ridiculous nature and the fact that it would add a touch 
of humor to what will doubtless be a very heavy book