CHAPDISC: 34, The Forest Again.

[kamion53]

No: HPFGUIDX 185060

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Kamion to pippin

Interesting vieuw that the "veteran"-part is covered by the 
Maraunders,pippin,
but it is a rather forced approuch I think. The only one who is the 
veteran in this is Lupin, the other are either casualty of war, 
prisoner of war and fugitive - instead of hiding in Paraguay like 
Mengele Wormtail is hiding in a ratskin.
Of Lupin we don't see very much other that his coping as a werewolf 
in the Wizard society and that determinates his behaviour far more 
that deeds and trauma's of the past. 
Sirius is fighting with demons still, but that is with the demons 
gained in AZkaban, 
from after the war caused by his treatement by the establisment, then 
caused by the war itself.

When the Maraunders listen to a model/scedule I am tempt to say, it's 
more that of schoolmates and what has become of them. But even that 
doesn't pull the car. The Maraunders is past and present are nothing 
more then an extention of Harry's father image. In knowing himself it 
is necesairy he knows his father, as was it alone because he is 
constant compaired with James Potter Sr. And they hardly act on their 
own, the actions of Sirius and Lupin are constant in the light of 
completing the knowledge Harry gains about James. 

And not about Lilly, we get a very very fussy image of Lilly through 
Lupin and Sirius, by the time she gets a face it is provided by Snape.
In this JKR is consequent in her structures: nothing is what is seems 
to be at first sight. In the end it is not the courage of James that 
pulls Harry through the fight ( with himself) but the selfsacrifical 
nature of Lilly.

OK, a bit of long and winding piece to say JKR did not write 
the "veteran"-book. And if we had not heard it blubbing from her in 
some intervieuw, we would neither go looking for it in the books.

I doubt someone who reads this books with interest and doesn't dig in 
intervieuws and fanwritings or opinions, but just analyses the work 
with an open mind, would come to the idea JKR used the veteranmodel.