Chapter Summary - PoA 10 & 11 - Motorbike discrepancy

[catherine at cator-manor.demon.co.uk]

No: HPFGUIDX 19735

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Susan Hall" <shall at s...> wrote:
Over the past year Sirius
> had believed that Remus had turned traitor (why? lingering anti 
werewolf
> feeling even among those who should know better?  Or was Lupin  
acting as
> yet another double agent?) and the knowledge of Pettigrew's 
treachery
> doesn't immediately exonerate Lupin - either one or both of his 
friends must
> be a traitor.  

I have always had a problem with this.  I think that Sirius must have 
had other grounds for believing the spy to be Lupin.  If James and 
Sirius thought so much of Lupin that they became animagi to ease his 
transformations - and in doing so showed that they didn't have any 
prejudices about werewolves - how is it at a later date these 
prejudices somehow manifested themselves as mistrust over who was 
spying for Voldemort?  

My guess is that it was a process of elimination.  They discounted 
Pettigrew, although why, I can't imagine, and therefore this left 
only Lupin.  Another idea could be that they suspected that Lupin was 
under the imperious curse.  The only other thing I can think of is 
that they thought that Voldemort may have some kind of influence over 
werewolves, but in my mind, this doesn't seem very plausible, as they 
would know that Lupin is only affected at certain times of the month, 
and that during the rest of the time, he is as human as everyone else.

Catherine