Lupin: Is he or isn't he? (was More on- Lupin is NOT, etc.)

[Amy Z]

No: HPFGUIDX 39476

Pippin wrote:

>Lupin is ever so evil.

I've been asked when I'm going to weigh in on this thread.  *scratches head* 
  I'm not sure why.  Anyhoo...

I really have nothing to say, except that it's inspired a new and healthy 
suspicion of characters I formerly trusted.  No more!

-Dobby.  It is SO obvious he's in league with Malfoy Sr.  Their double act 
is pathetically unconvincing.  Is there an older trick in the book than 
this?:  Bad Guy #1 pretends to be sick of his association with Bad Guy #2, 
tells hero so, along with pitiful tales of his mistreatment at the hands of 
Bad Guy #2.  Hero swallows it hook, line, and sinker, especially when right 
in front of him they have their apparently final falling-out.  Only a 
12-year-old who'd grown up in a cupboard would fail to recognize the 
pattern.

Clearly, Malfoy, L turns to another plot in PA (the whole Buckbeak thing) 
and his move in GF is to send Dobby to Hogwarts.  What's the first thing 
Dobby does?  Hug Harry.  Doesn't it seem just a little odd?  Just a bit 
forward, even uncharacteristic?  He is planting a wizarding sensor over 
Harry's left kidney for his still-partner to track.  Mark my words, LM will 
find Harry in Privet Drive in Book 5, chapter 2.

-Flitwick.  The only person we know of who understands the Fidelius Charm.  
He cast it and he made sure it would fail.  Responsible for the whole 
disaster.

-Lily.  Look, we know the whole 
sacrificed-herself-to-coat-Harry-with-magical-Teflon thing just doesn't 
wash.  What *really* happened that night?  How do we even know she's dead?  
We know Voldemort doesn't want to kill her.  Why not, hm?  Maybe Lily was 
playing her own dangerous game with the World's Most Powerful Wizard, 
letting him bump off inconvenient hubby James in the next room before 
cutting her deal . . . it just reeks of Double Indemnity.

-McGonagall.  (I wrote all this and then Elkins's post popped up.  But I 
can't bear to ditch it, so add these weak little tidbits to Elkins's 44K.)

She is supposed to be in loco parentis for Harry, and supposedly for the 
love of Quidditch keeps letting him do incredibly dangerous things.  Sounds 
like a clever front to me.  Does she strike you as a true sports fan?  No, 
she just thinks it's an A-1 way to get rid of this nuisance (whom she wanted 
to get rid of back when he was 15 months old, but Dumbledore *would* insist 
on this Muggle-relative plan and all her hopes of <ahem> taking care of 
little Harry herself were foiled).

She's also primed for an offer from Voldemort after 40-odd years as deputy 
headmistress under a headmaster who *will not die.*  She must feel like 
Prince Charles by now.  Her best years are slipping away while that 
doddering old idiot plays at being Head, while she could be doing such 
useful things . . . I bet she'd be very vulnerable to a whisper in the ear.  
"Deliver that bratty little Potter kid and the Headship is yours..."

If you doubt me, ask yourself this:  Who obstructs Harry's attempts to get 
to the Stone?  Don't say Snape.  All he does is meet them in the Entrance 
Hall and say something Slytherinish about how they ought to be outside lest 
someone think they're up to something.  But McGonagall not only instructs 
them in no uncertain terms to stop pursuing this whole Philosopher's Stone 
thing, she then *comes to find them* at the entrance to the third-floor 
corridor.  What is she doing there?  Nothing good.

Etc. etc.  After my HP service, a parishioner came up to me and said very 
seriously:  "Here's my prediction.  Book Six:  You Know Who and Dumbledore 
turn out to be the same person."  No one is immune!

Amy Z
off to work on a Harry is Ever So Evil theory

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