Coming around to ESE!Lupin (Well, maybe not)

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 73127

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "marinafrants" 
<rusalka at i...> wrote:

> It's true that Lupin's forgetfulness reaches superhuman 
proporitons 
> here.  But I still don't buy it as an argument for ESE!Lupin.  
> Because what exactly *is* the argument?  That Lupin 
deliberately 
> didn't take the potion?  Why?  In order to have the wolf kill 
> somebody, I presume -- Sirius, Harry or Snape being the 
obvious 
> targets.  But if that was his intention, wouldn't he be better off 
> actually taking the potion anyway?  As a wolf with human 
> intelligence, he'd be able to stalk his prey, judge the situation, 
> and make the kill at the most advantageous time and place.  
As a  ravening beast, he had no control of the situation and, in 
fact,  spectacularly failed to kill anybody.
> 

Ahh, you underestimate the cleverness of Ever so Evil Lupin. The 
crux of the theory is that, unbeknownst to Snape, Lupin *did* take 
his potion on that ever so fateful night.

The key to the theory is in Chapter 8 of PoA, where Snape brings 
a smoking goblet of potion to Lupin's office. 

"I made an entire cauldronful," Snape continued. "If you need 
more."

That establishes that there's extra potion available. It's also been 
established that breaking into teacher's offices isn't exactly
difficult.  

 Lupin, who has the Marauder's Map, could have seen Snape 
leave his office to bring him the potion and seen Peter Pettigrew 
on the map at the same time. All he had to do was  nip down to 
Snape's office, steal some extra potion from that  cauldronful 
Snape is so proud of having made, and set out for the Shrieking 
Shack, knowing he'd be in the Tunnel by the time Snape reached 
his office. 

According to this theory, Lupin left the map activated deliberately. 
He wanted to lure Snape out to the Shack so he'd have all his 
enemies in one place.  Lupin's plan was to assume wolf form 
and dispose of his enemies, either in the forest where a wild 
werewolf could be blamed, or by calling the Dementors on them.
 

We haven't been shown exactly how one gives orders to 
Dementors, but if it is a mental process then Lupin could do it 
even in wolf form. (Interestingly, the other time the Dementors 
invade the school, Lupin was also transformed. Was that a 
test?) Since he was supposed to be out of his mind, no one 
would suspect him of having summoned the Dementors. Lupin 
can't have anticipated that Harry would be able to hold off a 
hundred Dementors at once, but when he did, there was nothing 
for it but to spend the rest of the night in the forest pretending to 
be insane.

Pippin