[HPforGrownups] What about Lupin?

[The Fox]

No: HPFGUIDX 55525

From: "a_rude_mechanical" <a_rude_mechanical at yahoo.com>

>Possible reason for thinking that Lupin is...not good. (I just can't call 
>him evil, I can't!)

Well, he *is* a bit of a sneak, isn't he.  :-)  So, after all, is Our Hero, 
and so are all his best friends and closest allies.

>1) The sneakoscope goes off on the train when the trio enter Lupin's 
>compartment.

Quite right, and the guy's a werewolf (with no plans to come clean about 
this).  Dumbledore knows, and Harry and that crowd know, and you and I know, 
that Lupin's all right, but as far as the wizarding world in general is 
concerned, werewolves are bad news.  That sneakoscope can't tell the 
difference between a werewolf with a heart of gold (and a dependable chemist 
for a colleague) and any other werewolf.

>2) He doesn't bother to tell Dumbledore about Sirius being an animagus.  
>Could it be that he didn't want Dumbledore to know that Pettigrew was also?

You don't think Dumbledore knows full well that Lupin's friends were (and 
are) Animagi?  Granted, he doesn't seem to have been aware that Scabbers was 
actually Peter Pettigrew all this time, but he must have known about the 
Marauders back in the day.

>3) Much of his dialogue in the last few chapters is ambiguous, and could be 
>read several different ways--for example:
>
>(when Lupin finds out Sirius got a copy of the Daily Prophet inside 
>Azkaban)
>
>"'How did you get this?' Lupin asked Black, thunderstruck.
>
>'Fudge,' said Black. 'When he came to inspect Azkaban, he gave me his 
>paper.  And there was Peter, on the front page...on this boy's shoulder...I 
>knew him at once...'
>
>'My God,' said Lupin softly, staring from Scabbers to the picture in the 
>paper and back again.  'His front paw...'"
>
>It is possible to read this as though Lupin and Pettigrew were trying to 
>keep this all a secret...

You've lost me there, I'm afraid.  I'm trying to get my head around the idea 
that Lupin and Pettigrew were trying to keep it all a secret and *then* read 
the passage, and it's still not making sense to me.  :-)

>4)  (this is straight from PoA, and I hadn't noticed it before) Black 
>believed, back when all the Voldie stuff went down, that Lupin was the spy. 
>  Why?

That's easy.  Sirius knew that there was a spy.  He knew that he, Sirius, 
wasn't it.  He knew it had to be either Lupin or Pettigrew, and he figured 
Pettigrew hadn't the wit.  Peter was always the runt of that litter, wasn't 
he?  (Though he apparently fancied himself D'Artagnan to their Three 
Musketeers ... hmm, that might be an idea, there.)

Fox

...
Come on, Nature
Just because I don't feel weak
Don't mean I feel so strong.
-- the Proclaimers
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