E!Lupin

[Amy Z]

No: HPFGUIDX 57900

Pippin wrote:

> > Lupin's 
> > own friends thought he was the spy. I can't believe it was solely 
> > because he is a werewolf. 

Maria Alena:

> I agree with you, Pippin. <gasp!> While no one will ever convince 
me 
> that Lupin is ESE, except canon, of course, I do think that Sirius 
> and James had a very good reason to suspect Lupin of being a spy. 
The 
> simplest explanation I can think of has to do with the fact that 
> Lupin is a werewolf. It's very possible that Voldemort was 
recruiting 
> werewolves as spies and/or DEs, tempting them with future work 
> opportunities, for example. 

That makes sense, and I'd like to use it to shore up my even simpler 
explanation for why his friend (singular; the only one we know 
thought this was Sirius) thought he was the spy:  because there 
seemed to be *someone* spying and it was someone very close to James 
and Lily.  Why do we need to peer into Lupin's character in order to 
understand how he might fall under suspicion?  In an atmosphere like 
Sirius describes in "Padfoot Returns," trust is thin on the ground.  
If the circle of friends consisted of MWPP (though it could well have 
been wider--we don't know), then by process of elimination, Sirius 
would reason, as far as he reasoned at all:

-It's not me.
-It's not Peter.  I love him and all, but he's not exactly the 
brightest bulb on the tree.  Who'd ask him to be a spy?  He'd never 
be up to it.
-Uh oh.  That seems to leave Remus.

Amy Z
for the Society for Lupin's Unsullied Reputation Perpetuation

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