Fathers WAS: lupin's motives (was Depression (was Re: DH reread CH 31

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Sherry:
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 To me, Lupin is another example of bad
> fathering, another JKR dig at fathers in general.  She doesn't pain them too
> well in her series, except for Mr. Weasley.

Alla:

Hey, I am snipping your post Sherry just to react to your last two sentences. I totally agree with you about JKR not portraying fathers too well in her series, but am I dreaming or there was an interview where she said that untill certain moment she did not realize that exactly and then she could not bring herself to kill Arthur?

I never found anything strange with author's writing reflecting his or her personal joys and sorrows, exorcising her demons, reflecting what he or she went through, etc.

So if JKR did not have a good relationship with her father, I would have totally understand that she could not or did not want to portray good father figure in the series. I mean, after all from what I understand Jane Austen did not have a good relationship with her mother and her mother figures are accordingly pretty empty headed and annoying, to me anyway.

But if JKR truly did not realize what she was doing? I just find it interesting.

And how much of it is not an influence of her childhood, but simply requirements of the genre? For all father figures to have significant flaws  in order for hero to step out and eventually to become better than all of them.

I mean, I know you understand me as another Sirius' fan that I find the remark about Harry being better Godfather to Teddy than Sirius was to him to be well, how to put it? Disagreeable, hehe.

I was thinking that I would have responded - no, really JKR? The guy who spend half of his life in Azkaban and came back half crazy was worse Godfather? He tried as far as I am concerned and tried hard. I adore Harry, but no, I do not believe that in being Godfather to Teddy he had as much stacked against him as Sirius had (I am not talking about Harry's general hardships, just that *to be godfather* he did not have to escape Azkaban, etc, etc, etc).

I will not even start talking about Dumbledore here lol.

So anyways, I find all of this fascinating and just wanted to ramble.

JMO,

Alla