I'm imagining young Remus was tied up there... perhaps the reason Sirius picked that room.

...i am blanking at anything other than an incredibly kinky interpretation of this statement. >:} intentional?

as in OotP (and as in Chapter 19), he cannot commit himself to killing another human being, even though he has an urge to do so.

i do wonder what it would take to get harry up to killing speed. ...perhaps he'll have to be in the very middle of a bloodbath. see it and hear it and feel it... hmmmmmm...