[HPforGrownups] OK... theory I read while I was gone

[Richelle Votaw]

No: HPFGUIDX 56940

Darrin wrote:
  Lupin IS James.

  The book speculated that, as an added precaution against Voldemort, 
  Lupin and James SWITCHED bodies. Lupin inside James was killed while 
  James inside Lupin lived.

Richelle:

I have the book you're talking about, though I'm not to that part yet.  I have seen this theory before, though, on this group.  And I didn't buy it then either. :)
  PoA, pg 68: "Are you all right, Harry?"
  Harry didn't ask how Prof. Lupin knew his name.

So does Tom the bartender, Ollivander, and half the other people Harry meets.
  Page 140: "Lupin made a sudden motion with his arm as though he had 
  made to grip Harry's shoulder..."

  A father wanting to touch his son?

A man still wanting to deal with his own grief at having lost a close friend and wishing he could do something to help Harry through it.
  Pg 195: Lupin looked "both shaken and pleased" over Harry's Patronus, 
  which we later find out was a stag. 

First time he'd seen the stag that was James (and his good friend) in a very long time.  And considering James had become an animagus because of him, it's understandable

pge 260: "the possibilities were endless now that we could all 
transform"
Why wouldn't Lupin say "they" transform. Again, I think it's a touch 
weak, but there you go.

Because Lupin knew that James, Sirius, and Peter would never (at least at such a young age) bothered to learn to transform if it hadn't been so they could be with him when he transformed.  So Lupin was the first to transform, and once the others learned, "we" could all transform.  Not just "them."

Besides all of that, there's nothing in any of the HP books that ever implies that two people could switch bodies.  That, and JKR said a live James and Lily would never be seen.  And if Lupin were really James he'd have already been seen.

Oh, and there's the priori incantatum thing.  There's never a real explanation of whether it's the echo of the body killed or the soul killed that is seen, but we did see James' echo.  And he acted like Harry's father to me.  There was nothing said in that scene that implied he wasn't really James.

Richelle


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