Lupin's behavior (Was: CHAPDISC: DH11, The Bribe)

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 180589

> Carol responds;
> 
> Lupin is imagining Tonks's giving birth to a half-werewolf cub, and
> running off with HRH would let him forget the consequences of his
> choice to marry and impregnate Tonks. He is denying his
> responsibility, which is not to protect three of-age wizards but to
> stay with his family until duty calls him to defend the WW, as in 
the
> Battle of Hogwarts.

a_svirn:
And who and how is to decide when this "until" comes? Besides, he 
says that Tonks would be safe. I believe him, I certainly cannot 
picture Lupin going off and leaving Tonks in danger. Obviously the 
Tonks-Lupin womenfolk were left protected, most likely by fidelius. 

> Carol 
> It's his being a werewolf (as well as his status as 
an "undesirable")
> that makes him a danger to HRH,

a_svirn:
Eh ... sorry? Harry was the Undesirable No 1 himself. 

> Carol
 more so than to his wife, herself an
> Auror and member of the Order. Surely, he would not have married her
> without making some sort of arrangements to protect her from his
> once-a-month transformations.

a_svirn:
Surely. I believe I said already that it was not a problem. It is the 
other kind of danger. 

> Carol: 
> The Trio have no such protection. Exactly how are they supposed to
> protect themselves *from Lupin* when their "protector" turns into a
> werewolf once a month? He can't stay in the tent with them on those
> nights. Where is he supposed to go? 

a_svirn:
Actually, "protector" is your word. As to how, I don't know, 
supposedly he had some scheme in mind, only we didn't get to hear it. 

> Carol:
> Obviously, Tonks and Lupin found some way to live together in peace,
> some way to protect and their unborn child from Lupin's "furry 
little
> problem." 

a_svirn:
Obviously. So could the Trio find a way. 

> Carol:
My best guess is that Auror Tonks prepared Wolfsbane Potion
> for her husband every month. 

a_svirn:
She might have. Or not. We have no idea as to her proficiency in 
Potions. 

> Carol:
Neither Lupin himself nor HRH had the
> knowledge or the means of doing so, nor should that additional 
burden
> have been forced upon them by Lupin's unneeded and unwanted
> companionship. 

a_svirn:
"Unwonted and unneeded"?! As far as I remember they were all three 
quite fond of Lupin. 

> Carol:
(Also, of course, Harry had promised DD not to let
> anyone else, including Lupin, into the secret of the Horcruxes, and 
it
> would have been exceedingly difficult to keep it from him had he
> joined them. And if they cast Muffliato to keep him from overhearing
> their conversations, he'd have felt even more excluded and 
depressed.)

a_svirn:
He would have known what he had singed for. And he was used to feel 
excluded and depressed. 

<snip>
> Carol, who does not see Lupin's joining HRH as remotely comparable 
to
> fighting in the Battle of Hogwarts, which, fortunately or
> unfortunately for Lupin, did not coincide with the full moon

a_svirn:
Yes, you keep saying that. But I really don't see it. Both were about 
defeating Voldemort, defending the WW and making a new world. In both 
cases he left his family behind.