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

Tue Jun 4 00:14:36 UTC 2002

No: HPFGUIDX 39384

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> wrote:
> 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. 
>
Twisted!Dicentra: 
But, you see, I DO like it.  Not because I have anything against Lupin
(I don't), but because it would make such a delicious plot twist.
> 
> Yup. Lupin is ever so evil.
> 
He has to be: he's beloved, gentle, Dead Sexy, unassuming Lupin who
was kind to Harry and who helped show that Sirius was innocent and who
has that whole hurt-comfort thing going with the graying hairs and
pallid demeanor.  He's the last one you'd suspect (well, after
McGonagall and Hagrid), so it stands to reason that he's Evil.

> 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. 

Urk.  This one has can(n)ons aimed in the other direction.  As Ish
says, "Voldemort himself says that Quirrel was the first to come
along. Can you trust the bad guy? In this case, I think so; for this
is his triumphant "I expect you to die, Mr. Bond" speech. Villains
NEVER lie during these."  Pip thinks they do, and we certainly can't
put it past Mr. Voldemort, but this time let's not.

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.

Well, someone kinda poked a hole in this, too.  Naama said: "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."

So Lupin isn't there to avenge Peter's death.  I can dig that.  But
maybe he's there to kill Sirius anyway.  For whatever twisted reason
he has.    
> 
> ****"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

And this one kinda got kicked in by Naama, too: "Yeah, but come on,
that was because Voldemort was inhabiting his body. And Voldemort
knows this. <snip> 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."

But we can still save this as evidence if we surmise that Lupin was
going to do something else to Harry, like shake him senseless for
slandering his master, but he remembers that to do so would wreck his
cover.

> 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) 
>
Ah, yes, there is no limit to the twisted interpretations of this
line, is there?  I'll take Pippin's, thanks.  

<snip some great evidence, especially the part about Lupin having
taken the potion and deliberately acting vicious [Dicentra strokes her
FEATHERBOA]>
> 
> 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.

Well...  The dementors are attracted by commotions, so they might have
decided to have a look-suck, and Sirius probably fell to pieces and
reverted back to a human when he ran into them, and they recognized
him as their intended prey.... 

>  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.

Let's not have Snape put two and two together this time, hmm? Instead,
Snape Knows Nothing.  Peter Knows Nothing.  Noone knows that Lupin is
Evil.  HEY!  What if Voldemort doesn't know, either?  What if Lupin is
just Evil for his own reasons, and has nothing to do with Voldemort? 
That would be cool, too, if not all the Evil folks were DEs.

So, now we've got the Old Gang lying low at Evil!Remus's place.  This
calls for some Serious Scary Music, I'd say. 

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

No way!  This is good stuff!

--Dicentra, who, after all, digs having Harry's head come off, too