Lupin's Secrecy Concerning Padfoot

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No: HPFGUIDX 54724

From: finwitch [mailto:finwitch at y...]

Lupin chose to honour the act of risking everything for
 > friendship long time ago, and I believe that the memory of his
 > animagi-friends has been the only thing that kept him from 
 > committing
 > suicide with that gun he has... > > 
 > 
 
 
 Gretchen B. replied to this post and asked "What Gun", and I 
wondered 
 the same thing when I first read this post.  Lupin has a gun?  Did 
I 
 miss something? =)
 
 I have issues with Lupin not telling Dumbledore that Sirius was an 
 animagi--I mean, loyalty shmoyalty, this was a man who betrayed 
 (supposedly) Lupin's close friend.  I just think it was foolish for 
 Lupin to keep his counsel on this.  
 
 Of course, Harry does things like this (witholding important 
 information from his superiors) on a regular basis.  If he had told 
 Lupin on Halloween that he had seen an enormous black dog near the 
 Dursleys, the story would probably have ended very differently!!
 
 Elisabeth (who, like Hermione, believes that copying someone else's 
 is just plain wrong).