[HPforGrownups] What about Lupin?

[Kathleen Salisbury]

No: HPFGUIDX 55526


Hi!  My first time posting.....

Lupin is one of my favorite characters too and I think he's a good guy. 
 Here are my thoughts about these questions:

a_rude_mechanical wrote:

> Possible reason for thinking that Lupin is...not good. (I just can't
> call him evil, I can't!)
>
> 1) The sneakoscope goes off on the train when the trio enter Lupin's
> compartment.

I think the sneakoscope goes off on the train because Ron has Scabbers 
in his pocket.  Ron mentions that the sneakoscope was malfunctioning 
since he bought it (I think I'm remembering this correctly).  And Harry 
finally buries it in his trunk wrapped in socks when they are in their 
dorm room because it keeps going off.  Scabbers sets it off in my opinion.

> 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?

I think that he didn't want Dumbledore to know that Pettigrew was an 
animagus.  Peter was one of the gang of friends back when James, Sirius 
and Remus were at Hogwarts.  I think telling Dumbledore about Peter 
would have probably led to questions about the rest of them.

> 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...


I think Lupin just realized that Scabbers is Peter from the paper, just 
as Sirius did when he first saw it.

>
> 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?

This is an intriguing question and one that I've also thought about when 
I read POA.  I think we will eventually find out why Sirius thought 
Lupin could have been the spy.  Oh please don't let Lupin be bad.  I 
don't think I could bear it.  ;-)  


Kathleen, new to this email list and enjoying it tremendously