Say it isn't so Lupin!!!

[horridporrid03]

No: HPFGUIDX 170024

> >>Dana:
> And yet he [Lupin] still tries to live as any other wizard and     
> against all odds he maintains himself and keeps control even though 
> life is getting harder by the day.
> <snip>

Betsy Hp:
Except that Lupin doesn't keep control of himself.  During a time of 
great stress he neglected his medicine and transformed into a 
mindless beast driven by its desire to kill and eat human beings.  At 
a school.  For which he (correctly, IMO) lost his job.

So Lupin is already aware that his ability to manage his dark side is 
not as good as it should have been.

> >>Dana:
> <snip>
> On the contrary, his problem of telling the truth in PoA because of 
> the internal conflict he was struggling with, indicates that he    
> would never want to betray his friends and he could not chose      
> between revealing a secret he shared with one group of friends to a 
> person who gave him a chance to a normal life, who made it possible 
> for him to have these friends.
> <snip>

Betsy Hp:
I'm not sure I've ever thought of things this way before, but Lupin 
*does* betray James in PoA.  He allows James's son to be endangered 
by the man who caused the death of James and James's wife several 
years ago.  

We know that up until he finally talks to Sirius face to face at the 
end of PoA, Lupin thinks Sirius is a killer out to get Harry.  But 
Lupin falls down in the job of keeping Harry safe.  He witholds 
crucial information. 

So it cannot be a sort of oddly displaced loyalty to the last 
tattered idea of the Marauder friendship, because then we have to 
explain why Lupin puts more weight on his friendship with Sirius than 
his friendship with James.  (The Lupin/Sirius ship would help things 
out here, but unfortunately it's been sunk by Herself.) So in the 
end, it really seems that Lupin's keeping secrets for selfish 
reasons, not for reasons of friendship.

I'm not sure I follow all of Pippin's views of Lupin, but there's 
certainly something sinister about him and his odd disregard for 
others and unwillingness to act.

Betsy Hp