[HPforGrownups] Blame the wolfie?

[Tandy, Heidi]

No: HPFGUIDX 19788

catherine wrote
> 
> --- 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. 

My guess is that Peter, while in rat form, spied on a conversation between
either Sirius & Remus, James & Remus or Lily & Remus, where the subject
matter discussed was known only to the four of them, and provided
information about that conversation to Voldemort. If Voldemort then acted on
that information, Sirius, James & Lily would only have had Remus to blame
unless the thought of Rat!Peter spying on the conversation occured to them.
If they had reasons for not thinking Peter was the spy, then Remus would've
been the logical, practical and blameworthy target