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

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> a_svirn:
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> I don't know. I don't remember Harry being particularly interested 
in 
> Lupin after POA. In GoF he spared him one fleeing thought – compared 
> Fake!Moody's teaching techniques to those of Lupin. But other than 
> that he was absolutely focused on his relationships first with 
Sirius 
> and then with Dumbledore. It didn't look that there was a place for 
> Lupin in his affections. Besides in a scene we are discussing Lupin 
> did offer his friendship along with his help – now that Harry was an 
> adult and they could deal as equals. Harry didn't react kindly to 
> that, though. 


Alla:

Oh, but I agree with you that Harry is not shown as being interested 
in Lupin's in PoA. I think he respected him, yes, but I doubt that he 
wanted him as father figure by the time Sirius was in the picture. 
That is not what I was talking about though. I was talking about Lupin 
not checking on Harry in his early years. And I think that Harry would 
have hold on to tiny drop of affection from ANYBODY while he was at 
Dursleys and yes, I believe that they could develop a relationship 
from there if Lupin was a tiny bit interested.

Yes, yes I know nobody was checking on Harry and maybe Dumbledore did 
expressly forbid anybody to interfere. MAYBE. Since Remus did not 
mention once that he was forbidden from interfering, I am feeling free 
to speculate that he simply was not interested in doing so.

And putting aside all other issues in that scene that I am not 
interested in repeating my views anymore, his offer of friendship on 
its own was as far as I am concerned way too late.

JMO,

Alla.