Lupin and Tonks - What about the baby?

[Jim Ferer]

No: HPFGUIDX 173518

Rahel: "Well, dear, people are different. Take it from another parent
of a  1 year old (and of a 3 years old). Under the conditions life 
presented to the Lupins, I would have not hesitated but acted just 
like Tonks did. I would have left my child under the best care I  know
it would get, and went off to protect the loved one who was in 
imminent danger - my husband."

Lynda: "I know many parents who leave infants and toddlers in the care
of others to go to dangerous jobs and situations. Teddy Lupin was left
in the care of his grandmother. He was safe and away from the danger
of the battle at Hogwarts and his parents, after all, had jobs to do!
It was a better alternative for Tonks (a law enforcement officer) than
to be stuck at home worrying about Lupin et al. Same with Lupin. That
doesn't mean they were bad parents. Just not homebodies!"

There's another dimension to this. The best way Remus and Tonks can
defend Teddy is to do everything they can to make sure the Dark Lord
is defeated. They have to give him a decent world to live in, and not
leave to him the task of breaking the tyranny of Voldemort and his
followers. It's sort of related to the famous quote that "the tree of
liberty has be be refreshed with the blood of patriots..." 

I do wonder who brought Teddy up after his parents' death, if his
grandmother was too old. First guess, the Weasleys.

Jim Ferer