Lupin's relationship with Harry

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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Jenett <gwynyth at d...> wrote:
> At 4:43 PM +0000 1/1/02, clio44a wrote:
> >I would like to add some thoughts to your post. You are right, it
> >appears that Sirius was a 'better' best friend of James than Remus.
> >If both of them were equally close friends, why didn't make James one
> >of them his best man and the other one godfather? Plus Sirius was the
> >first choice in being secret keeper. Did they really not trust Remus
> >because he was a werewolf?
> 

In PoA, we learn that Remus was not told of the last-minute
secret-keeper switch because Sirius wasn't absolutely sure he wasn't
the spy.  Remus, also, suspected Sirius. (Just before rolling up their
sleeves to zap Rat Pettigrew, they apologize to one another.) Peter
wasn't suspected because he didn't seem to have the cojones to *be* a
spy in the first place.

As for who was best friends with whom, it's entirely possible that
James and Sirius went way back, pre-Hogwarts, and that Remus and Peter
became their friends at school.
> 
> We also have no idea, I think, whether the Potters thought that 
> Dumbledore would take Harry to the Dursleys. It might have been 
> purely Dumbledore's idea. 

Dumbledore believed that Sirius was the secret-keeper. (He even
presented evidence to the MoM to that effect.) When the Potters were
murdered, he naturally believed that Sirius was the traitor and
therefore a danger to Harry. The Dursleys were his only remaining
choice.  Besides, he didn't want Harry's fame in the Wizarding World
to "turn his head."