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

[FoxyDoxy]

No: HPFGUIDX 82903

Salit <slgazit at sbcglobal.net> wrote: 
>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.<

Doxy:

I’m not going to try and convince any of you Lupin lovers that he 
is ESE or a killer, because it looks like you cannot be swayed. But 
I don’t see how, with all the evidence that points in that direction, 
you can still call him a *decent* person. Lupin has deliberately put 
thousands of lives in danger over the years, he has betrayed 
Dumbledore’s trust, and he quite possibly betrayed the trust of his 
closest schoolmates. He must have done something for them to not even 
consider him for the secret keeper job. (Side note: Why is Lupin’s 
name so conspicuously absent during the discussion between McGonagall,
 Flitwick, Hagrid, & Fudge at the 3 broomsticks? He doesn’t even get 
an honorable mention. He was working at the school, it’s not like they 
could have just forgotten about him.)

If you read the showdown at the DoM scene that has been the main topic 
of discussion lately, it looks like Lupin doesn’t even have his wand 
out. And why should he? If he’s working both sides who does he have to 
defend himself against? 

I believe Lupin did take out his wand to kill Sirius when no one was 
watching him. Dumbledore had his hands full with a whole mass of Death 
Eaters, Harry didn’t see him do it because he was watching Sirius and 
Bellatrix fight, and Lupin tried to distract his attention from the 
scene by sending him to go round up the others. I think he did it, and 
I think he did it with deliberate intent and malice aforethought. (I 
have been discussing this off list with KathyK for quite awhile, the 
motive essay will be coming soon). As to why he killed Sirius instead 
of Kingsley or Tonks or Moody – Stoned!Harry and a working knowledge of 
alchemy explains that. Since that’s a different theory altogether I 
won’t go into it here.   

*If* for some reason it turns out that Lupin is not ESE or a killer, 
then he is just a weak and treacherous coward. And I for one do not find 
that *decent* either. 
 

FoxyDoxy, sneaking snacks aboard the Killer!Lupin canoe.