Suspension of disbelief -Idiots of War

[Carol]

No: HPFGUIDX 182395

Carol earlier:
> > > <SNIP>
> > > We do have a reason why Lupin doesn't help Harry in OoP or HBP;
he's spying on the werewolves. In DH, Harry declines his offer to help
them, believing (rightly, IMO) that Lupin's duty to his pregnant wife
and unborn child should come before anything else. 
> 
Magpie responded:
> Just to stick in my own opinion here, I don't think he's right that
Lupin's wife and unborn child should necessarily come before anything
else. I know you're not suggesting this, but I think that implies men
who go away to fight a war who have a family are irresponsible. And 
in this case the war directly effects his wife and child. Families
make sacrifices in war time. <snip>

When [the country is being taken over] it becomes not only responsible
but expected that intelligent adults will make it their fight. And
it's not unusual for people to leave their civilian jobs (or do things
outside of work) for it as well.

Carol again:
Not that Lupin has a civilian job to return to--he's unemployable in
the new regime and his cover as a spy has been blown. Tonks can't
work, either, since she's being specifically targeted along with him
for marrying a werewolf. It's imperative to keep her and their
half-werewolf child safe.

However, there's no reason why he couldn't be a member of some sort of
resistance movement (as I think most of us originally imagined the
Order to be. He doesn't have to go with HRH (who as "adults" in the
WW's eyes don't really need an older companion any longer). I doubt
whether he'd have had any better success in finding Horcruxes than the
Trio did (or in obtaining the means of destroying them). 

But he could make sure that other Order members and their families are
safe (he'd make a fine Secret Keeper), occasionally appear on Lee
Jordan's wireless broadcasts (as he does), and otherwise do what he
can until his services as a fighter are actually called for. When they
are, he shows up and gives his all for the cause (and for the small
son who will never know him).

Carol, who thinks that the problem is not that we see no adult Horcrux
hunters (except DD in HBP) but that the Order members and other adults
in the WW can't find more effective ways of their own to hinder LV's
rise to power while Harry is out on his mission for Dumbledore