[HPforGrownups] A thought about Lupin

[dracojadon at yahoo.co.uk]

No: HPFGUIDX 171534

> Magpie:
> Actually, I don't believe she did say that. She said he was a Half- 
> blood,
> which means he could have a Muggle-born parent or a Muggle parent.

Jadon:
I'm sure the list's had this discussion before, but if Lupin had a  
muggle-born parent he would be a full-blooded _wizard_. Not a  
pureblood, because they have their own criteria for this sort of  
thing, but not a halfblood either. Riddle calls Harry a halfblood to  
bring him 'down' to his own level. I think the terms are flexible  
because they're used as veiled insults. The unwanted trait is  
emphasised. Doesn't Hagrid deny that Harry's a halfblood at some point?

I've always thought of Lupin as freelancing in the muggle and  
wizarding worlds, doing work here and there for the cause, for  
science, all very Stephen Maturin and underground, not a lot of money  
to pay him in the work he wants/is able to do. It's been kept so  
deliberately secret since PoA I feel we must find out something more  
in DH. Lupin's parents, too - where are they? Pettigrew's parents?  
Did they all die in the war? Are the Weasleys a cover-up for the fact  
that no-one else has a family?

Employment must be much easier for female werewolves. :)

Jadon