[HPforGrownups] Evil!Lupin explains it all for you

[Maria Kirilenko]

No: HPFGUIDX 50115


I know I've posted a reply to Pippin's post already, but I forgot to address one of Pippin's points. 

Pippin wrote:
> ...most people think that Harry is right [in the way that he thinks 
about Lupin as opposed to the way Lupin presents himself in 
his confession] and Lupin is just beating up on himself. People 
have come up with a whole lot of reasons that Lupin's 
conscience *might* have been weighing in on both sides of the 
issue. But these are conjecture.<

I replied:
>>> I don't agree. Lupin says in his confession: "...I had led three 
fellow students into becoming Animagi illegally." Whatever 
anyone may say, Lupin here is obviously being too hard on 
himself. How could he lead "the ringleaders of their little gang" 
into becoming Animagi? IMO you couldn't make James and 
Sirius do anything against their will,.<<<


Pippin answered:
Well, not against their will maybe, but Hermione sure managed 
to railroad Harry and Ron into that polyjuice caper, and nobody 
would describe her as the leader of Harry's little gang. And Ron 
ran the chess game in PS/SS.  We just don't know what the 
dynamics were.

My turn again <g>:

OK - you remember that scene in CoS? That's Episode 2. Now for Episode 1...

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“Remus, what can we do to make your transformations easier?” asked James.

"Oh, there is a way," said Remus slowly, dropping his voice
still further with a quick glance across the Gryffindor common room at the prefect. "Of
course, it would be difficult. And dangerous, very dangerous. We'd
be breaking about fifty school rules, I expect, and also a couple of Wizarding World laws along the way -"

"If, in a month or so, you feel like explaining, you will let
us know, won't you?" said Sirius irritably.

"All right," said Remus coldly. "What you’d need to do is to
get inside the Shrieking Shack at full moon but so that I wouldn’t hurt you."

"But that's impossible," James said as Sirius laughed.

"No, it's not," said Remus. "All you need to do is to become Animagi."

"What's that?" said Sirius and James together.

"McGonagall mentioned it in class a few weeks ago -"

"D'you think we've got nothing better to do in Transfiguration than listen to McGonagall?" muttered Sirius. The best ideas for pranks often came to Sirius during Transfiguration.

"An animagus is a person who can transform into an animal at will. Think about it! You could change into some big animal. You’d be able to control me. We could have so much fun! We’d probably be able to spend the time outside the Shrieking Shack, if you turned out to be very big animals."

"This Animagi stuff sounds a bit dodgy to me," said Sirius, frowning. "What if we were stuck in animal form forever?"

"C’mon, you’re so smart, you’d never mess it up," said Remus, waving his hand impatiently. 

A little while after:

Sirius turned, speechless, to James, who had another worry.

"D'you realize how much we're going to have to steal,
Remus? I don't know if this is a good idea ......”

Remus shut the book with a snap.

"Well, if you two are going to chicken out, fine," he
said. There were bright pink patches on his cheeks and his eyes were
brighter than usual. "I don't want to break rules, you know. I think
the pain that I suffer during my transformations is far worse than becoming illegal Animagi. But if you don't want to have loads of fun and help me in the process, I'll go
straight to Madam Pince now and hand the book back in ='

"I never thought I’d see the day when you'd be persuading us to
break rules," said Sirius. "All right, we'll do it."

"How long will it take to make, anyway?" said James as Remus,
looking happier, opened the book again.

"I'd say it'd be ready in about two years, if we can get all the
ingredients."

"Two years?" said Sirius. "We could have so much fun just using the invisibility cloak and the Marauder’s Map… Maybe we shouldn’t do this…" But Remus’ eyes narrowed
dangerously again, and he added swiftly, "But it's the best plan
we've got, so full steam ahead, I say.”
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Does that sound plausible? It doesn't to me. I'm sorry, but I can't see Remus Lupin saying "C'mon, guys, it hurts so much! Do break the law! it's not as important as helping me bear my pain! And you could have so much fun in the process!"

But I can picture James and Sirius saying: "Remus, we want to help you! We've seen how bad you look after the full moon, and we want to make it a little better," etc. And Remus, after much coaxing, finally gives in. 

Ii could also be that they didn't even tell Remus they were going to do it right from the start. Maybe they told him when they were half done, so it would have been a shame to stop when they were so close to finishing. That way, Lupin phrase "I'd lead three students into becoming Animagi illegally" makes a lot of sense - he didn't even have a chance of stopping them, which made it even worse for him. But that's still beating oneself up.

As for Ron solving the Chess Challenge, he was the only one who was able to play chess. Harry and Hermione weren't nearly as good.

Regards,

Maria,

who thought of that little bit of fanfiction while looking at the full moon last night. ;)



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