Lupin's untainted chocolate

[Tracy Hunt]

No: HPFGUIDX 86300

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Diana" <dianasdolls at y...> 
wrote:
> snapesmate wrote: 
>  Also I have read a post that mentioned 
> > Lupin handing out tainted chocolate.  I do not recall canon that 
> says 
> > the chocolate was "tainted".  Am I drawing a blank on that as 
well?
> > Lynnette, who thinks Snape IS a good guy, even if he is NOT a 
nice 
> > guy!
> 
> Diana (me) writes:
> 
> Here is the quote from PoA: [Set Up: Lupin has handed out chocolate 
> to all the students in the train car with him after driving away 
the 
> dementor.  Too embarrassed about collapsing from the dementor's 
> effects, Harry hasn't eaten his chocolate yet.)
> 
> QUOTE: Professor Lupin had come back.  He paused as he entered, 
> looking around, and said, with a small smile, "I haven't poisoned 
> that cholocat, you know..."
> Harry took a bit and to his great surprise felt warmth spread 
> suddently to the tips of his fingers and toes.END QUOTE
> 
> The chocolate was NOT tainted, but another poster used this 
incident 
> and Lupin's light-hearted comment as grounds for the theory that 
> several red herrings suggesting that Lupin wasn't a good guy were 
> placed throughout the book purposefully by JKR. The point of these 
> red herrings was that when Lupin embraced Black in the Shrieking 
> Shack, the reader (along with Harry) would be equally stunned by 
> Lupin's appearing to be in leaque with the presumed-evil Black.  

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Tcy:
There have been many posts by many posters positing that Lupin is 
less than angelic.  The (I believe) original post that questioned the 
purity of the chocolate given to the kids on the train is Pippin's 
post #39562 (from June, 2002) which introduced us to LYCANTHROPE 
(Lupin Yields Candy, A Nasty Trick, He's Really, Obviously, Perfectly 
Evil).

So, the canon never says for sure that the chocolate is 'tainted' - 
however, like most theories here, there is canon to support the 
possibility.

Tcy
(who will never succumb to Pippin's ESE!Lupin theory -- unless JKR 
makes her)