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

[Carol]

No: HPFGUIDX 180595

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 responds:

I already answered this, but I'm reanswering because, as it turns out,
"protector" isn't my word; it's Lupin's. I just couldn't find the
reference before.

After Harry (politely) refuses to tell Lupin their mission, Lupin
says, "But I might still be of some use to you. You know what I am and
what I can do. I could come with you to provide protection. There
would be no need to tell me exactly what you were up to" (DH Am. ed.
211). Which returns me, of course, to my original argument, what
happens when they need protection from their protector?

And note that Harry himself silently raises another of my points,
wondering how they could possibly "keep their mission secret from
Lupin if he were with them all the time" (211). It's Hermione who
brings up Tonks. Her "Congratulations" when she learns that Tonks is
going to have a baby is answered with an "artificial smile" and a
repeated offer to accompany HRH (212).

Sorry to prolong the argument (Geoff must be holding his head in
agony), but I had to clarify that "protector" was not my word. I got
the idea straight from Lupin himself.

Carol, reaching five posts for the day and Disapparating