a Lupin Rant

[Eva]

No: HPFGUIDX 173416

Eva
This episode doesn't detract from Lupins braveness or any good qualities he
has. He is a good person, but but was overwhelmed with all that was
happening and the consequences of that. 

sherry now:
I was disgusted with Lupin in the scene of the argument with Harry. I am a
disabled person, and Lupin is a metaphor for disabled people. My parents
would have been ashamed of me, if I'd come off with such a self-pitying
attitude as Lupin in that moment. My siblings and true friends would give
me a figurative kick in the rear if I tried it today. Lupin had love, a
baby, respect of people he respected. He was doing something, fighting
Voldemort. Yes, I know what it's like to be unemployed because of a
disability. I know how I've had to prove I'm ten times better at a job than
a sighted person, in order to get and keep a job. Yet, I've been steadily
employed for 20 years, due to my determination never to give up, never to
give in to what the world thinks. I'm stubborn and was taught that the only
thing that could stop me was me. I was taught to believe in me, a lesson
Lupin apparently never learned. Either that, or he just got too comfortable
with everyone enabling him in his self-pity and whining, used to people
saying things such as, come on, moony, it's gonna be ok. We all like you.
or whatever they said. I cheered when Harry told him off, because it was
about time someone did! I liked Lupin in every previous book, but I wanted
to shake him in DH, and no other supposedly good character came off looking
so disgusting to me. Until the scene at shell Cottage, where he had
obviously perhaps grown up a little and was finally doing the right thing.
We didn't see his death, and I'm confident he died bravely, but I did not
like him in the beginning of the book.
   
  Eva again: 
  Yes, Lupin had a very long moment of weakness. But that's human. In the rest of the books he is a brave, determined person. I have been trough a couple of episodes myself, where I was honestly a self-pitying jerk. But then I often caugth a kick in the backside of my pants and I was forced to straighten out. 
   
  Perhaps that is why I can sympathize with Lupin. Yes, he had one long very weak moment. But in the end he managed to get himself straightend out (with some help) and did the right thing. Isn't that what matters in the end? 
   
  Eva 


       
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