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Originally posted by: iluvOriginals
My Second doubt
Book 3Through out the book we believed Sirius was a murderer/traitor.All the Characters including Remus Lupin believd the same.It is really undigestable fact that Lupin didn't mention to anyone or Most importnly to Dumbly that Sirius was Animagus. And he is breaking into Hogwarts as a dog..The reason he gave is"All this year, I have been battling with myself, wondering whether I should tell Dumbledore that Sirius was an Animagus. But I didn't do it. Why? Because I was too cowardly. It would have meant admitting that I'd betrayed his trust while I was at school, admitting that I'd led others along with me... and Dumbledore's trust has meant everything to me. He let me into Hogwarts as a boy, and he gave me a job when I have been shunned all my adult life, unable to find paid work because of what I am. And so I convinced myself that Sirius was getting into the school using dark arts he learned from Voldemort, that being an Animagus had nothing to do with it... so, in a way, Snape's been right about me all along"Was Lupin really More scared of admitting his 'betrayal' To Dumbly than Harry's safety??So many incidents suggested that Sirius was after Harry.. attack on Fat lady..breaking into dorm with knife.Didnt Remus feel afraid of loosing Harry??Juz suppose if sirius was traitor.. he wud hv killed harry Easily.. what then?
@ Bold : Apparently YES !!..and look what it led to !- even MORE guilt & confessions !
The way I see it, JKR had designed certain characters like Remus Lupin & Severus Snape in such a way that they had "Tragic Fate" written all over them since childhood no matter what, owing to different-different reasons..While Snape was destined to be deprived of love forever, Remus was destined to live in guilt forever ..
Coming to Remus, yes, it was cowardly of Remus to not have revealed Sirius's Animagus secret to Dumbly out of fear of falling out of Dumbly's good book..however, i think we are being too harsh on him if we maintain such an unidirectional approach..lets consider the context once again, the guilt of betraying Dumbly was something that Lupin had kept bottled up inside his heart for a long long time since his Hogwarts days, he felt that he led his friends into being Animagus for his selfish reasons & thus betrayed Dumly's trust who brought Lupin into Hogwarts with great personal risk..and say what you might, i personally feel that such bottled up feelings are hard to confront, just as it was difficult for Snape to face his worst memories pertaining to James's bullying & Lily's death that he preferred to never talk about it..moreover, i think Lupin may have been secretly hoping or atleast hoping to believe that Serius might not actually hurt Harry even though all the evidences suggested otherwise..but ofcourse those are just assumed excuses (which works well for me)..and it all again comes down to just one fact, "guilt" is inseparable part of being Remus Lupin, be it during his childhood days, or be it when he married Tonks or was about to get married, or when Tonks was expecting..etc & so on..I think good people like Lupin ( like Harry) have a rather unfortunate tendency to blame themselves for everything..moreover,look at the quoted lines from the book in the above quoted post,he is finding every possible way to put the blame on himself (well, in this case atleast he was partially right to put the blame on himself), but its just too much to take when so much of self-blame is presented in one go (but that does not mean I forgave Dumbly when he indulged in 'self-blame' in the afterlife at King's Cross Station 😡)..my feelings about Lupin in this perticular scene is a little less "blaming", in other words, i held him less "accountable" in this context as compared to Harry when he led his friends into Voldy's trap in OoTP out of pure heroic stupidity..
I for once was glad that Remus did not go on & on about 'guilt' when his ghostly self appeared after Harry finally used the resurrection stone, i felt that JKR finally gave him a 'guilt-less' closure eventhough his son was now an orphan..it was so unexpected that he didnt indulge in any form of "self-blaming" in this final scene and i was HAPPY about it !..😊
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