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

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No: HPFGUIDX 39376



Pippin puts forward a truly chilling theory: 

<snip>
> 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. 


Me: 

OK, Pippin. I think I've got something here: It doesn't make sense 
that Voldemort would send Lupin to kill Sirius. He would have no 
other motive than to avenge Peter, and what does he care about Peter? 
What does he care about any of his enemies or allies? As we have 
seen, he would just as soon Crucio the one as the other. No, if Lupin 
was in Albania, Voldemort's faithful follower, he wouldn't be wasted 
on such a foolish, sentimental mission. Voldemort would have found 
much more useful things for him to do. Such as finding a loyal DE and 
bringing him to Albania (so he could take care of baby Voldemort). 

Also, when Voldemort describe his long years as Noxious Gas, he says:
"And then, not even a year ago, when I had almost abandoned hope, it 
happened at last ... a servant returned to me: Wormtail here ... " 
(GoF, graveyard scene) 
But if Lupin had already been there, then it had happened once before 
- that a servant returned to him. But he says, "it happened at last", 
meaning it hadn't happened until then (right?). 

Pippin:

>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

Me:

Yeah, but come on, that was because Voldemort was inhabiting his 
body. And Voldemort knows this. He says (GoF, graveyard scene):
"His [Harry's] mother died in the attempt to save him - and 
unwittingly provided him with a protection I admit I had not foreseen 
... I could not touch the boy". 

And then he runs "one of his long white fingers" on Harry's cheek. 
That means that Voldemort identified the protection Harry's mother 
gave him as specifically against himself, not a general protection 
from enemies as such, DEs or whatever. No, the protection is only 
against Voldemort, and he knows it. If Lupin is doing Voldemort's 
bidding then he would know this as well.

Pippin:

<snip>
>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)

Me:

But, at that scene, Lupin is described as "paler than usual." I don't 
do a lot of gloating, so I wouldn't know - is pallor a normal 
reaction? In any case, it's not exactly the conventional description, 
is it? If Lupin is gloating at that point, the "paler than usual" is 
unfair misdirection, IMO. 

There are two other descriptions that weigh (IMO) against 
Evil!Lupin theroy. 

a) Lupin is described  as having a twinkle in his eyes (p. 268). This 
isn't proof, obviously, but I can only remember Dumbledore and Hagrid 
twinkling. Who else twinkles (only eyes! Lockhart, AFAIR, has 
twinkling teeth).  [Does Crouch!Moody ever twinkle?] 

b) In the Shack, Lupin speaks with "self-disgust" in his voice when 
describing how he failed, again, Dumbledore's trust. I can't think of 
any reason why Evil!Lupin should feel self-disgust at this point, can 
you? Isn't evil, by definition, remorseless? 

<snip a lot of spooky persuasive stuff>

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

Well, Pippin, hope this helps! ;-)


Naama