Evil!lupin: a rebuttal

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 53434

The Hobbit Guy said:

Well, lets look at the choices he has made. So far,  Lupin has 
made thedifficult decision to return Hogwarts to teach, even 
though the place issurely rife with both good and bad memories 
for him.  He has sworn to protect Harry Potter and the rest of the 
school from one of his formerbest friends (I know that this isn't 
directly stated in canon, but I'm certain that this is at least part
of 
the reason Dumbledore asks him toteach, and at least part of 
the reason he accepts.  His knowledge of Sirius Black would 
have been a great asset if Black were truly after
Harry.).  He has done his best to resist sniping at snape 
throughout theyear (not easy, I'm sure!). 

 He has promised to help Harry defend
himself from the dementors,
<snip>
 Finally, and to me, most
significantly, when faced with the possibility of gaining revenge, 
heDOES NOT DWELL ON IT.  <<


Not vindictive?  It's far easier to make a case for vindictive!Lupin 
than, say, vindictive!McGongall. There's the Snape-boggart, the 
vampire essay, the chilling exchange

"Forgive me, Remus," said Black.
"Not at all, Padfoot, old friend," said Lupin...

and most telling,  Lupin's casual re-introduction  of cold-blooded 
murder ("No one's going to kill you until we've sorted a few things 
out") as the way to deal with Pettigrew.  This *after* Sirius 
himself had already proposed bringing Peter up to the castle 
instead, where a healthy dose of Veritaserum could have 
established the truth to the satisfaction of everybody. 

Lupin could have had evil reasons for teaching Harry to resist the 
Dementors, just as Fake!Moody taught Harry to resist the 
Imperius curse. And of course, Lupin could have learned about 
Pettigrew the same way Sirius did.

Some of Lupin's choices don't speak  well of him at all. His 
humiliation of Snape in the boggart incident is hilarious from the 
reader's POV (and I smile everytime I anticipate Alan Rickman in 
drag) but it didn't do Neville any good. He was more afraid of 
Snape than ever, and Snape treated him worse than before. 

Worse, Lupin doesn't tell all he knows about the escaped 
terrorist murderer Sirius Black. That's very odd, if he's sworn to 
protect Harry at all costs.  It's also very strange that Lupin pays 
no heed to Ron's injuries or Snape's until they become a 
logistical problem, even though Ron is in obvious pain the whole 
time and an unconscious person should be checked at once to 
make sure they are breathing.

Speaking of choices, it's pretty likely that Pettigrew will be 
redeemed. Shouldn't there be at least one dyed-in-the-wolf, er, 
wool, member of MWPP who goes bad and chooses to remain 
so? Though I'm sure he'll be offered the chance to repent.

Pippin