Lupin After All? was: Responsibility for Sirius's Death

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, udder_pen_dragon <udderpd at y...>
wrote:
> I read a lot about who is believed to be responsible for Sirisus
dieing. Of course the blame is shared is shared, I have compiled a
list of the usual suspects and some mabee not so usual. I have put
them in what I believe to be ranking order.
> Please let me know what you think
> 1) Voldemort  :  Obviously
> 2) Bellatrix Lestrange  :  she fired the shot
> 3) Kretcher  :  If he had done his job and brought Sirius to talk to
Harry, end of problem.
> 4) Sevrus Snape  :  for IMO not even attempting to teach Harry
Occlumency. If you want to teach a 15 year old, to play Tennis you
don't hire Rudedski and Phillipousis (excuse the spelling for bot of
those) to serve aces at him in the hope that he might learn something.
> 5)  Dumbledore  :  For the same reason he blames himself OOTP UK
starting page728 <snip>



Let's not forget 6)Lupin. 

I was never much of an Evil!Lupin supporter, but after going back and
re-reading the battle scene in the MoM, I'm beginning to have my
doubts.  Every one of the Order members are accounted for during that
scene. Each one's position is mentioned at one time or another
*except* Lupin. He is not mentioned during the battle at all...he's
not fighting off any DE's.  

We all assume that the second shot, which kills Sirius, comes from
Bellatrix's wand. Harry certainly assumes this. But the passage
doesn't actually say this. JKR even has Dumbledore conveniently
looking the other way until Sirius has already been hit. Could Lupin
have been standing behind Bellatrix and shot Sirius from that
position? (If so, perhaps it was Lupin who talked Sirius into coming
to the MoM). Or, perhaps Lupin was aiming at Bellatrix from behind, in
order to defend his friend, but missed and hit Sirius accidentally?  

Lupin's shot would certainly account for Sirius's "surprised" look. I
had originally believed that his surprise was of being hit, but it
could certainly be of being dealt a fatal blow by his last remaining
childhood friend. 

:: Entropy :: who would sure like to see a priori incantatem done on
those two wands (Lupin's and Bellatrix's).