when I grow up
Jun. 9th, 2003 10:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pauraque_bkIn discussing Sirius's immaturity, something occurred to me. We're most familiar with six people from the class of '79 (or so): Sirius, Pettigrew, Lupin, James, Lily, and Snape. Of the six, two were murdered, two turned Death Eater, and one was wrongfully imprisoned. This was all at about the same time, when they were all roughly twenty years old. James and Lily didn't get the chance to grow to full adulthood, in the most literal sense, but Sirius, Peter, and Snape didn't get that chance either -- they had their hands full just trying to survive. How much can you mature, living as an animal for thirteen years? Or as a prisoner? Or as a spy?
Looking at those three as men in their thirties, their behavior is difficult to understand. But if you consider that none of them has had the chance to mature past the age of twenty, their actions start to make a lot more sense. To an extent, they still have adolescent sensibilities.
So where does that leave Lupin? He's the odd man out. To the best of our knowledge, though he suffered through watching his friends' trauma, he escaped the catastrophic events of his early twenties relatively unscathed, and free to make his own choices. And again, this shows in his current behavior. He's one of the few adults of his generation who actually acts like an adult. He's had time to step back and get some perspective, a luxury the others didn't have.
(By the way, on a completely different note... I'm probably addressing the wrong audience, but has anyone else heard this CD of string quartet covers of Tool songs? Christ, it's good.)
Looking at those three as men in their thirties, their behavior is difficult to understand. But if you consider that none of them has had the chance to mature past the age of twenty, their actions start to make a lot more sense. To an extent, they still have adolescent sensibilities.
So where does that leave Lupin? He's the odd man out. To the best of our knowledge, though he suffered through watching his friends' trauma, he escaped the catastrophic events of his early twenties relatively unscathed, and free to make his own choices. And again, this shows in his current behavior. He's one of the few adults of his generation who actually acts like an adult. He's had time to step back and get some perspective, a luxury the others didn't have.
(By the way, on a completely different note... I'm probably addressing the wrong audience, but has anyone else heard this CD of string quartet covers of Tool songs? Christ, it's good.)
