Lupin is an honest, nasty, DISLOYAL person (who is ever so evil)

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 39362

WARNING: This post is seriously twisted. It was going to be a 
TBay, but the more I thought about it, the more canon I found. I 
don't like it. But, God and JKR help me, it fits. 


--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "cindysphynx" <cindysphynx at c...> 
wrote:

> So who does Dumbledore trust enough to let his guard down?  
It's a 
> fairly short list, I think:

> 6.  Lupin/Sirius.  No.  No, no, no.  

This is a  red flag. JKR wouldn't create two characters with the 
same narrative function. Only one of them can be the 
scapegoat--the other is guilty, guilty, guilty. It can't be Sirius. 
Everybody in the wizarding world thinks he dunnit. It's Harry's 
quest to clear his name. But that leaves--

Yup. Lupin is ever so evil.

Don't get me wrong. I don't like this. I really don't like this. It's 
heartbreaking. Only, that's what  evil is, right?  Frodo doesn't 
really understand the power of Mordor till he sees Hobbiton in 
ruins. 

No. No, no, no? That's what Luke Skywalker said. And he felt 
angry and sad and horribly betrayed.  So do I.

This explains all the  Lupin mysteries...why he didn't tell 
Dumbledore about Sirius or the map, why he's so calm and 
unhurried in the shack, why he insists that Sirius and he have to 
tell the whole story, why he left the map where Snape could find 
it. It explains why Crouch!Moody is so good at teaching DADA.  It 
even explains The Prank.

I say Lupin is a servant of Voldemort. Where did he go after 
James and Lily died? To Albania perhaps? Equipped with a 
wand but unable to aid his master because of his  condition? 
Lupin could hardly tend to baby Voldie's needs in wolf form, after 
all. But then Sirius escapes Azkaban. And Voldemort sends 
Lupin to find and murder Sirius who killed his servant Peter. 
Lupin and Voldie don't know that Peter is alive, of course. 

Now I tried to dismiss this theory. I told myself it wouldn't fly 
without a honking big pink flamingo of a clue. Unfortunately there 
is one.

****"When they get near me--" Harry stared at Lupin's desk, his 
throat tight. "I can hear Voldemort murdering my mum."

Lupin made a sudden motion with his arm as though to grip 
Harry's shoulder, but thought better of it."*****PoA Ch. 10

Yep, Lupin is extremely reluctant to touch Harry, not surprising 
since the last Voldemort employee who tried it got fried. Better 
wait till Harry is unconscious and try it then. PoA Ch. 12

There's another clue, of the "can't tell you how pleased I am to 
meet you" variety.

****"Forgive me, Remus," said Black.
				"Not at all, Padfoot, old friend,"***** PoA ch. 19
(shiver) 

But Lupin taught Harry to fight the Dementors.

Yeah, just like Moody taught Harry to fight Imperius. But not 
because Dumbledore made him. . Imagine the  villain-tells-all 
scene where Lupin explains just how much he enjoyed watching 
Harry live through the agony of his parents' deaths, over and over 
and over again. (shudder)

Come to think of it,  Crouch!Moody does *exactly* what  Lupin did 
to win Harry's confidence.

Humiliate one of his enemies, like Snape or Draco 
(Boggart/ferret)
Befriend Neville ( Boggart/herbology book)
Use Voldemort's name. Crouch!Moody only uses it once, IIRC. 
But it's important, because *we* have to know that Voldemort's 
servants can use it if they wish.
Teach him a really neat dark arts fighting technique (patronus, 
imperius resistance)
Show him a little undeserved favoritism (rooting for Gryffindor, 
help with the First Task)
Get him out of a tight spot with Snape (Snape's Grudge/Egg and 
the Eye)


 It's almost like Moody had instructions, isn't it? 

And of course, he did..."I've had a letter from Professor Lupin..." 
(shiver) GoF ch. 14

 How did Crouch!Moody, who's never taught a lesson in his life, 
get so good at teaching DADA? Lupin taught him. He *is* a good 
teacher. 

He does have one rather frightening hobby: he makes pets out of 
Dark Creatures and then kills them.  We know what happened to 
the Boggart in the wardrobe. But what happened to the 
Grindylow, eh?  Why put in the detail of the empty case? (shiver)

Now, consider the night of the Shack:

Eversoevil!Lupin has been waiting all year to get his hands on 
Sirius. Just as he tells the trio,  he hasn't been helping Sirius get 
into the castle. Indeed,  he doesn't want Harry dead. (shiver) In 
fact Lupin himself shivers here. No, Voldemort has warned him 
not to let Harry die. 

Lupin figures that the Trio will go down to see Hagrid the night of 
the execution, which, ever so conveniently is going to be a full 
moon. He knows that Sirius is lurking  on the grounds, because 
he's seen him on the map. He guesses that Sirius will try to 
contact Harry. This is Lupin's big chance. Not only will he kill 
Sirius, he will save Harry Potter. Perfect! He takes his potion, but 
secretly. It's easy to break into Snape's office, as we have been 
most carefully shown,  and Snape brews the stuff by the 
cauldronful. Then Lupin waits. But look! There, on the Map, it's 
--Peter Pettigrew?? But Pettigrew's *dead*.

 Lupin's got to have an explanation for this. He sees everyone 
enter the willow, and he gets a brilliant idea. He leaves the 
activated map on the table and runs out toward the Shack, 
knowing Snape will come to give him the potion, see him on the 
map and follow him just as he did twenty years before.

  Sirius Black never planned to murder Snape. Lupin did. And 
Lupin hates Harry, just the way he's hated James, ever since 
James thwarted his beautiful plan.

Of all the Marauders, Lupin has the best reason to want Snape 
dead, since he has the most to lose if his secret is revealed. He 
doesn't think he'll be blamed...the werewolf did it, not him.


So Lupin gets to the shack, and then he insists, insists! on a 
long detailed explanation from Sirius. He hasn't been Sirius' 
friend, but now that it turns out that Sirius is innocent of killing 
Pettigrew, he  is, for a while. Lupin has to be very careful to tell 
the exact truth. Crookshanks is there, just as he was in the 
compartment on the train. The beast has only limited kneazle 
power. He can recognize an animagus, but he doesn't have the 
full "detect unsavoury" ability or he would have reacted to Draco. 
Even if you think Draco's okay, are we supposed to believe 
Crabbe and Goyle are too? 

As soon as the moon comes out, Lupin will transform and kill 
them, all except Harry. Yes, even under the influence of the 
potion, because, alas! Lupin's human mind is just as twisted 
and evil as his werewolf one. "It is our choices, not our 
abilities..."

Then Snape shows up, and the plan nearly fails. Fortunately for 
Lupin,   the Trio foil Snape. Sirius suggests the ridiculous idea of 
chaining Lupin to Pettigrew and Lupin goes along with it.  He 
wants Peter to get away, because now it's Peter who must die for 
his disloyalty to LV, and young Potter has these idiotic scruples 
about it. 

Lupin transforms, keeping his human mind, and attacks. 
Pettigrew gets away. Lupin breaks off the battle with Sirius and 
heads toward the forest, planning to double back and pursue 
Pettigrew after he's dealt with Sirius.

Sirius chases off after Pettigrew and then, mysteriously, 
hundreds of Dementors appear and attack Sirius, Hermione, 
Harry and Ron. 

Think about it. There've been people wandering around the 
grounds all night. Snape, Fudge, MacNair, Dumbledore, Hagrid, 
Tt!Harry and Tt!Hermione . The Dementors don't bother any of 
them. Then all of a sudden there are hundreds. Why? Because 
werewolf!Lupin set the Dementors on our heroes. (shiver!) Can 
the Dementors tell when they're dealing with a human mind in a 
canid body? They can't.

But the plan fails. Tt!Harry conjures Prongs (how horrifying for 
Evil!Lupin), then Snape comes around and takes Sirius up to the 
castle. Lupin has no choice but to spend  the night in the forest. 
But, as he tells Hagrid, he didn't bite anyone. How Lupin would 
know that, if he was  out of his mind that night, we aren't told.

 Suppose Snape discovers sometime during the night that a 
gobletful of potion is missing. Now  he understands, but it's not 
proof. It's still his word against Lupin's. Snape takes his fate in 
his hands. Dumbledore may not forgive him for this, but he has 
no choice. He "accidentally" forces Lupin to resign.

Driven from Hogwarts, Lupin goes back and reports to his 
master, who is thus well prepared when Pettigrew appears. Was 
Lupin in the circle the night Cedric died? Could be. Why doesn't 
Snape object when Sirius is sent to Lupin's? Well, there's no 
time to argue with Dumbledore. Snape's got a job to do. And he's 
no friend of Sirius, handshake or no.

Well there you have it. There's just one thing I want you to do. 
Talk me out of it!

Pippin