CHAPTER DISCUSSION: Prisoner of Azkaban Chapter 9: Grim Defeat

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> I was really struck in this read by how close Harry came to mentioning the dog--that he thought might be a grim--to Lupin. And I too wondered how it would have changed things. I think Lupin would have looked grave and Harry would have quickly changed the subject, more convinced than ever that it was a Grim. 
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> Who thinks  Lupin would have kept the information to himself--like he did about the Marauders' Map and who thinks he would have taken some action? Who thinks he might have told DD about the Marauders' Animagus forms?
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Alla:

Well, I guess I am giving Lupin's benefit of the doubt but knowing that Harry saw Grim? I sure hope he would have told Dumbledore then about their Marauders' forms. On the other hand, feeling even less than usual Dumbledore's love lately if such thing possible, what if he truly thinks not very high of Dumbledore's ability to do fair investigation? On one hand it is clear in the next books that unlike Sirius Lupin is unwilling to question anything done or said by Dumbledore, on the other hand to me this behavior of his and thinking that if he will tell Dumbledore, he may not give Sirius' fair chance to even explain himself is not mutually exclusive.

JMO.