Sirius don't need no stinkin' remorse

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 47733

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Audra1976 at a... wrote:

> Sirius would have had to have made two assumptions:
> 
> 1. Werewolf!Lupin was "tamed" enough by the other Marauders 
interventions  that he wouldn't have actually killed Snape (IIRC, 
Lupin says something about  being able to keep control more 
and more in his werewolf form after the  Animagi!Marauders 
started keeping him company).
> 
> AND
> 
> 2. Snape did not know enough about DADA to actually hurt or 
kill Lupin.
> 
> It's pretty much of a gamble, but otherwise, Sirius just didn't 
comprehend  (was he that stupid?) or care (was he that 
callous?) what happened to Snape,  or his friend, Lupin.
<<

 Or perhaps the reason we can't find a motive that makes sense 
is because once again Sirius is taking the rap for someone 
else...ever so evil Lupin, anyone? <veg>

Could it possibly be that Lupin engineered the whole thing, from 
Sirius' "amusing" revelation to Snape's rescue by James? What 
if  the real point was not to ridicule  Snape  or kill him but to
keep him from further spying on the Willow and enlist authority to 
stop Snape from revealing Lupin's secret?

Lupin certainly had the most to lose if the Marauders had to give 
up their monthly activities for fear of getting caught.

Pippin