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[mamadeb]

An open letter to all writers of Remus Lupin:

ENOUGH with the chocolate already.

He is NOT obsessed with chocolate. He doesn't eat a single piece, for example in Order of the Phoenix.

Chocolate is the Wizarding remedy for an encounter with a Dementor. Remember how pleased Madam (note, please, *Madam*, not *Madame*. Poppy is not French) Pomfrey was when she learned that Lupin gave the students chocolate? "Thank goodness someone knows his remedies."

The other times he gave Harry chocolate was after Patronus training, which meant he had to encounter a Dementor!Boggart, and apparently that has much the same effect as a real Dementor, which doesn't make any sense, but whatever.. Not only that, but he never eats it himself after those lessons (does he even eat any on the train?)

I know it's cute; I know it's become a fanon character trait and I know it seems to make sense, but it's NOT canon.

Comments

[azurelunatic]

It would make sense to have him able to pull out remedies for nearly any Dark Arts attack out of his pocket, the sort that only the seriously paranoid and/or professional Me vs. the Dark Arts person would be carrying around casually.

[azurelunatic]

If someone's carrying around prescription-strength chocolate, and doesn't occasionally nibble on chocolate himself, he was either prepared for a dementor attack specifically, or is in the habit of carrying around useful items like that.

[jacquez.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't be surprised if he (and the rest of the staff) were pre-warned about the Dementors, and so Lupin had some on the train because he figured he probably *would* need it.

[mamadeb.livejournal.com]

More than that - I suspect he was on the train specifically in order to deal with such an attack.

After all, how much would it have cost him to floo from The Leaky Cauldron to The Three Broomsticks?