Re: Lupin the traitor



On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 01:48:45 -0000, dicconf@xxxxxxxxx (Richard Eney)
wrote:

>In article <68nkj1l3iedpdofmhp8r6i6ot0ofmlqqse@xxxxxxx>,
>Toon <toon@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> dicconf@xxxxxxxxx (Richard Eney)wrote:
>>>Toon <toon@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>Weird Beard <weird_beard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>"Bajori" <baronjosefr@xxxxxxx> wrote
>>><snip>
>>>>>> So what about Lupin's behavior? Why should he
>>>>>> not be expected to show the same behaviors
>>>>>> that he expects might affect Bill Weasley?
>>>>>>
>>>>>He DOES show these behaviors, every month. He takes a special potion,
>>>>>which lets him keep his mind, but he still turn into a wolf.
>>>>
>>>>Downside, Snivellus has to make it for him.
>>>>Oh geeze he's screwed.
>>>
>>>Nope. Lupin specifically says that Snape made the potion perfectly,
>>>even though he had every opportunity to make it worse for Lupin.
>>>
>>>=Tamar
>>
>>Read HBP
>
>I did.
>
>Did you mean that Lupin is screwed because he no longer has Snape
>to make the potion for him? Lupin has been elsewhere, living with
>the werewolves, without the potion as far as we know, or getting
>(no doubt expensively) elsewhere.

Yes. Once his spying days are through, he has no one to make the
potion. Hopefully Slughorn, but he's been more about hanging with the
powerful, as opposed to being powerful. And it sounds like the potion
is quite difficult, whereby a poorly made one is best avoided.
.



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