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

[Yahtzee63 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 82819

If there is to be a great betrayal, it will not be Lupin, for one simple 
reason: It's the wrong generation. 

The Marauders already HAD a great traitor. That was Peter Pettigrew, and it 
was his acts that cast doubt on the strength/endurance/truth of the tight 
friendship between those four guys. If Lupin were to turn traitor as well -- what 
precisely would it teach Harry? What would it really have to do with Harry? As 
others have pointed out, though Lupin has always been friendly to Harry, he 
has never been a true father figure to him; he's someone Harry knows and trusts, 
but it's too remote for a second betrayal. If Lupin were to turn out to be 
evil, it would be because of events in the past that had zero to do with Harry 
or what's been going on the past few years. It would be essentially 
meaningless, something that had shock-value only. There is no way it would affect Harry 
on an emotional level the way Peter's betrayal must have affected James, Lily 
and Sirius. (I speak only of the emotions involved -- for so long as James and 
Lily were alive to know their betrayal.)

If there is to be a great betrayal awaiting in the final two books, it will 
be committed by someone who is of Harry's generation, somebody he has known and 
whose life he has played a major part in influencing. I don't have a more 
specific candidate for whom it might be, but I feel quite sure that it will 
strike far closer to home for Harry than Remus Lupin. If it were Lupin who turned 
around, all Harry would learn is, "Man, my dad sucked at choosing friends." If 
Harry is to be profoundly shocked and changed by the experience, the betrayal 
would have to be somebody a lot closer.


Yahtzee



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