E!Lupin

[kiricat2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 57908

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> 
wrote:
> Amy, speaking for SLURP:
> 
 
> > 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.
> 
Then Pippin:

> The trouble with this reasoning is that it excludes James and 
> Lily. They also must have believed that the spy had to be (or 
> could have been, if the circle was wider) Lupin rather than 
> Sirius...or why didn't *they* tell Lupin about the switch?

If we're assuming that it was a small circle (MWPP+Lily), then I 
don't see a problem. I think canon supports that James and Sirius 
were so very close for so many years that of course James would never 
suspect Sirius.  And, it's plausible to me that he and Sirius would 
have the same opinion of Peter's abilities, thus leaving Remus as the 
only one standing as a possible traitor. 

Granted, we don't know the thoughts of Lily in all of this. Did Lily 
have the same suspicions?  Or did James and Sirius have to convince 
her that the probable traitor was Remus? Either way, she obviously 
didn't tell Remus about the switch, either.

Marianne, holding out for Good!Lupin