Pippin, you've done it again! (Was -who will betray the Order?)

[slgazit]

No: HPFGUIDX 82810

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Iggy McSnurd" 
<coyoteschild at p...> wrote:
> Just a quick counter idea in case anyone asks:  "But then, why did 
Lupin
> teach Harry how to summon a Patronus to protect him from the 
Dementors?"
> 
> Easy answer...  "To make sure he was safe and alive for Voldemort 
to get to.
> If Harry's soul had been sucked out, he would have been useless to
> Voldemort."

Sorry I don't buy it. Lupin is such a *decent* person there is no 
way in my mind that he could be the traitor. Noone has ever 
described Peter as a "nice" person - he was described as a tag-along 
weakling by his teachers in PoA and was shown in quite a disgusting 
light during the pensieve incident. I have yet to see one action by 
Lupin that will show his base nature, and we have seen quite a lot 
of him - both in PoA and OoP

And as for the quote above, there is a lot more evidence in OoP that 
Snape was weakening Harry's defenses against Voldemort during the 
occlumency lessons, yet there seems to be a complete refusal here to 
believe that poor little abused tortured Snape could ever be the bad 
guy. I am not saying that he is (yet), but that there is much less 
evidence against Lupin as there is against Snape.

Salit
(who will believe that Lupin is the traitor only if she sees it in 
print - inside a JKR HP book).