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

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 180654

> Alla:
> <SNIP>
> 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.


Alla:

Okay, Alla slaps her fingers. I did not mean to say that by itself 
the offer of friendship is something bad, but to me it IS too late 
and much easier to offer friendship to adult Harry and do nothing 
when Harry needed a helpful adult when he was a kid.


a_svirn:
<SNIP>
No, it is the sign that he was angered. And it never stops to puzzle
me why Harry is allowed to wallow in self-pity for being an orphan,
but for Lupin to have a moment of weakness is disgraceful.


Alla:

Slaps her fingers even more. I allowed Remus to wallow in self pity 
for six books, I mean for three books. It is a cumilative effect you 
see, there is a moment when it started being too much for me.

I guess Harry did not reach that moment for me - he whined, but I 
was not fed up by his whining. Probably because whining was not the 
only thing he did and if he did not like something, he at least 
sometimes tried to correct it for the better.

Yes, I know Remus did heroic things, but not once I saw him trying 
to CHANGE what he whined about.

He loses his job and he is mad at Snape? Go confront him, PLEASE, 
tell the bastard to his face what you think about him ( Please, I am 
not going to argue about whether it was Remus fault or not, I am 
only talking about Remus' feelings about Snape and mine too). You 
are not happy that Dumbledore sent you of all people to werewolfes? 
Tell another bastard that you. are.not.going, that there are other 
tasks you can be doing.

Molly pressures you into making up with Tonks, tell her what you 
think man.

See, a_svirn, it is a cumulative effect. I felt pity for him over 
and over, by the time he came to offer his help to Harry, boy was I 
fed up.

If it was the first time he did it, I may have reacted very 
differently.

Alla