E!Lupin

[darrin_burnett]

No: HPFGUIDX 57909


> > -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.

Pip:
> 
> 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?
> 

So Lupin wouldn't be vulnerable to capture and torture to reveal who 
the Secret Keeper was? The more people that know, the less chance it 
works, because V-Mort can just start pounding on people to find out 
who the Secret Keeper is.

They trusted Sirius enough to make him the Secret Keeper, so the 
circle of knowledge is, at that point, James, Lily, Sirius and D-
Dore, who gave evidence that Sirius was the Secret Keeper. (They 
probably did the spell themselves, or asked D-Dore to do it, but if 
not, then Flitwick or someone else skilled in charms is in on it too)

Then, Sirius hit upon the Peter idea. We know he didn't tell 
Dumbledore about that. 

We don't know how the spell is made, but I'm assuming for the moment 
that James and Lily knew about the switch and that Sirius just 
couldn't transfer it to Peter without telling James and Lily. And 
surely he'd have gotten their OK to do that. Hopefully.

Lupin just simply didn't need to know.

Darrin
-- Wish people shared their problems with me on a need-to-know basis.