[HPforGrownups] Re: Victory for TEWWW EWWW

[Maeg]

No: HPFGUIDX 173325

Siriusly Snapey Susan wrote about my interpretation of Lupin's death:

> Sorry, but why does *that* have to be the 'message' that one takes  
> from
> situation?
>
> How about a much plainer but still true one:  'War sucks'

Yours is another interpretation, and equally valid. I see Dobby's  
death, for example, in this light.

Mine was inspired from canon -- Lupin himself says of his child "....  
it will be better off, a hudred times so, without a father of whom it  
must always be ashamed!" (DH, US ed., p. 213)

Given that there is nothing in canon to suggest that werewolves are  
treated more humanely after the events in book 7, it seems like this  
is exactly JKR's point. The best Lupin can do is die.

Maeg

My mind isn't always in the gutter -- sometimes it comes out to feed.