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

[Tiffany B. Clark]

No: HPFGUIDX 180667

> Carol again:
> 
> Since you concede a fair number of my points and we'll never agree 
on the others (Harry's right to criticize Lupin's behavior, etc.) I'll
jut add quickly that Harry does regret the loss of his temper and he
does ask dead!Lupin's forgiveness (whereas Lupin, who kicked the
furniture and hit Harry with a spell, implicitly forgives Harry but
never apologizes for his own conduct. Dead!Lupin says, "I'm sorry,
too," but what he's sorry for is leaving his only son an orphan, not
his behavior toward Harry in Harry's own house.

Tiffany:

I didn't like how Lupin didn't apologize for his own conduct then as 
well.  Harry should've known better than to let his emotions get the 
better of him at such a point in time.  However, Lupin's conduct was 
far more serious & aggressive towards Harry.  I like Lupin a lot in 
the novels, but when he kicked the furniture & used a spell on Harry, 
I didn't care for him too much then.

>Carol:
> 
> To return to Mike's post, we don't know what happens to most of the
werewolves in the WW when they transform. You'd think, wouldn't you, 
that a lot more people would be bitten, adding rather dramatically to 
the werewolf population. It's one of the weak points in the stories. 
Whether there's a werewolf colony in the Forbidden Forest or not (I 
think not, or DD would have been a lot more careful about letting the 
students out onto the grounds on full-moon nights), Lupin can't get 
there to hide. The Forbidden Forest is on Hogwarts grounds, and you 
can't Apparate or Disapparate into it (or pass through gates guarded 
by DEs once Voldemort has taken over the school).

Tiffany:

I too was letdown by the lack of information about werewolves in the 
WW when they transformed.  It seemed like tossing in something about 
them becoming werewolves once bitten would've been mentioned, but it 
wasn't.  It seemed like the only werewolf we knew a lot about was 
Lupin, but most of the rest of the werewolves in the WW weren't 
mentioned at all or had only brief mentions, compared with Lupin.