Lupin and Betrayal

[Sarah Rettger]

No: HPFGUIDX 7801

Rita wrote:

<<<When it became impossible to deny that there was a
Dark Side spy 
among the good guys, that the bad guys were not
getting their 
information simply from Divination or something, it
was still 
impossible to believe that any of our trusted, loyal
friends, who had 
all risked their lives for the Light Side on occasion,
would have 
turned to the Dark Side. [Peter WOULD NOT have been
assigned the code 
name "Iago", even if there were code names.] Run down
the list of 
names of our comrades, and at every name, "No, it
couldn't possibly 
be him (or her)." 

Come to Remus's name on the list. Say "No, it couldn't
possibly be 
him. He's the nicest person anyone would ever want to
meet, and so 
ethical that he sometimes acts the prig." But someone
said: "Well, he 
*is* a werewolf, therefore not always in control of
his actions. You 
know he's not the nice guy on Full Moon nights!" It
seemed very 
unlikely, but anyone else seemed impossible...>>>


The strong prejudice against werewolves also makes me
think of several government agencies in the 1950s and
surrounding decades, when homosexuals were routinely
denied employment because of the concern that they
would be more susceptible to blackmail.  They were
considered to be "security risks," and not
trustworthy.

Perhaps a similar situation arose with Lupin.  They
knew someone had to be the spy, and at first glance,
Lupin was the most obvious candidate: although his
closest friends knew that he was a werewolf, he
understandably tried to keep it quiet.  With the
wizarding world's strong prejudice against werewolves,
it might have seemed to Lupin's friends that he had
sold out to Voldemort in order to protect his secret.

Sarah


"How about a nice _book_?" Ron asked innocently.  --
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban








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