The Lupin Within

Earlier I posted my defense of some of the additions to POA in the movie version. Another came to me in a conversation over the weekend. I also noted in another post that Granger reported Rowling's comments commending the insights of the movie makers. In conversation with our friend Nathan it struck me that she may have also meant this instance I am about to talk about. WhenI first saw (in the movie) Sirius run up to Lupin and say to him something to the effect of "the werewolf is not who you are, this heart inside is who you truly are" my first thought was "hmmm, a little canned." But the reason I now think it may have been on of the lines JKR was commending is because of the "Draco wolf-boy" theory (for those not familiar, it is the theory that Draco was bitten by Fenrus Greyback in punishment for Lucius' failing in book 5, and that what is on his arm that hurts is not a dark mark but a werewolf bite, which Bourgin would have recognized in connection with the mention of the name, and which would explains Draco's fatigued and gaunt look in HBP). In HBP we see some more of what it means to Lupin for him to be a werewolf (this would also involve the lines on the bridge to Harry in the POA movie if those were added in, "your mother had the ability to see the best in a person even when they could not see it themselves"). Lupin still has trouble not thinking of himself as somehow intrinsically wrong, as an abomination, as somehow too far gone for love (as we see in the interchange where we find out that it is him Tonks has been in love with). If Harry is to be reconciled with Draco, his being a were-wolf, combined with the sympathy Harry has built for Lupin's condition (another POA movie addition, "Professor Lupin isn't having a very good night") ... this could be a path for the sympathy Harry needs to find with/towards Draco. He needs to see that just as the outer monster is not the real Lupin (cf the POA "canned" addition), so the monster of insecurity and petty malice that Draco's family attitude has built does not have to be the real Draco.