Lupin the Spy

[Melody]

No: HPFGUIDX 44979

smellee writes:
>>>In The Prisoner of Azkaban, Sirius acknowledges that Sirius and
James thought that Remus was the spy and Remus was the one who was
feeding information to Voldemort.  I always wondered why the thought
Remus was the traitor. I wouldn't think becuase he was a werewolf, but
I can't come up with anything. Any thoughts, please?<<<


So Richelle wrote:
>>>>>I have two "explanations" for this.  First of all, since Sirius
knew there had to be a spy, and knew it had to be either Peter or
Remus, Remus may have been the logical choice because he was a
werewolf, which means Sirius was prejudiced and brings up more issues.
 The other thing is if the Mauraders were in fact from four different
houses, and if (there are a lot of ifs involved in this one) Peter was
in Hufflepuff, those are supposed to be the loyal ones.  So he would
(foolishly) have thought it was safe with Peter as secret keeper,
since he's the loyal one.  Neither of these may be the right reason,
though, so I'd love to hear more thoughts on this!<<<<


So I add:
I always Lupin and Black assumed each other because they dismissed
Pettigrew as being intelligent enough to pull off the lie and
betrayal.  Pettigrew, after all, is always being described as not to
bright and a tag-a-long.  They seemed to always dismiss him as able to
accomplish much of anything.

Though Lupin had more reason to believe Black was the spy since he
heard the story of Black and Pettigrew's encounter.  Lupin knows of
Pettigrew's weakness and Black's anger and passion.  If Lupin is to
believe that Black is the betrayer as the WW does, it is easy to
*make* the pieces fit rather than to accept that Pettigrew was
stronger than Lupin thought.  Why would Voldemort want Pettigrew
around anyway?  What good could Pettigrew be to him cause?

It seems to me that Lupin and Black both ruled out Pettigrew because
they figured Voldemort would not want a pathetic wizard like him.

Voldemort cannot be that desparate or compassionate.

Melody