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Jan. 5th, 2004
Snape/Lupin, Part II.
Jan. 5th, 2004 08:09 pmHere's the second part of my Snupin fic. I can't explain the ending. It sort of... happened.
Part I
( Part II )
I have followed the discussion resulting from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
marinarusalka's Dumbledore essay on ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
hp_essays (and have contributed a lengthy comment which basically is my Dumbledore essay), and in combination with the other Dumbledore essays I've read, as well as the fact that mimine once pointed out the similarity between Dumbledore's and Lupin's characters (i.e. manipulative liars), I realised something that I feel the need to address.
Everyone who has read more than one entry on my LJ will have noticed that I do like Remus Lupin. In fact, I rather adore him. I've discussed his characterisation with several people by email and I have posted comments (most often rather lengthy ones) on other people's journals. I do hope that everyone who has read my opinion on Remus realises that I don't like him because he is nice, essentially good person, but because he is a smooth liar who tends to dodge responsibility. He withholds important information all throughout PoA. We all know it, we all criticise it.
What strikes me as rather mysterious is why everyone accuses Remus on not telling Dumbledore about Sirius' Animagus form, when not one anti-Dumbledore essay (unless I missed it) lists the fact that Dumbledore knew about the tunnel leading to the Shack because he was the one who had it built as one of Dumbledore's many failures. Remus didn't have to give that information. He had it from Dumbledore, after all.
The fact that Sirius is an Animagus is certainly very important, but it isn't how he got into the castle. It is how he escaped Azkaban - and travelled the country. He would have been able to get into the castle even without being able to turn into a dog. He moved around the castle human-shaped. Being able to turn into a dog made it easier, but the major reason he was able to get on the grounds was the tunnel which Dumbledore himself had built and yet not blocked - although he had Filch supervise/make inaccessible all the other secret passages to the castle, just in case.
Remus is guilty of withholding information in many instances, but not of withholding from Dumbledore how Sirius got into the castle.
BTW,marinarusalka, this doesn't refer to your essay, which focuses on quite a different aspect of Dumbledore's character. It's merely something-I've-always-wanted-to-say.
Part I
( Part II )
I have followed the discussion resulting from
marinarusalka's Dumbledore essay on hp_essays (and have contributed a lengthy comment which basically is my Dumbledore essay), and in combination with the other Dumbledore essays I've read, as well as the fact that mimine once pointed out the similarity between Dumbledore's and Lupin's characters (i.e. manipulative liars), I realised something that I feel the need to address.Everyone who has read more than one entry on my LJ will have noticed that I do like Remus Lupin. In fact, I rather adore him. I've discussed his characterisation with several people by email and I have posted comments (most often rather lengthy ones) on other people's journals. I do hope that everyone who has read my opinion on Remus realises that I don't like him because he is nice, essentially good person, but because he is a smooth liar who tends to dodge responsibility. He withholds important information all throughout PoA. We all know it, we all criticise it.
What strikes me as rather mysterious is why everyone accuses Remus on not telling Dumbledore about Sirius' Animagus form, when not one anti-Dumbledore essay (unless I missed it) lists the fact that Dumbledore knew about the tunnel leading to the Shack because he was the one who had it built as one of Dumbledore's many failures. Remus didn't have to give that information. He had it from Dumbledore, after all.
The fact that Sirius is an Animagus is certainly very important, but it isn't how he got into the castle. It is how he escaped Azkaban - and travelled the country. He would have been able to get into the castle even without being able to turn into a dog. He moved around the castle human-shaped. Being able to turn into a dog made it easier, but the major reason he was able to get on the grounds was the tunnel which Dumbledore himself had built and yet not blocked - although he had Filch supervise/make inaccessible all the other secret passages to the castle, just in case.
Remus is guilty of withholding information in many instances, but not of withholding from Dumbledore how Sirius got into the castle.
BTW,
marinarusalka, this doesn't refer to your essay, which focuses on quite a different aspect of Dumbledore's character. It's merely something-I've-always-wanted-to-say.