DD: an appreciation plus Lupin - again.

[Renee]

No: HPFGUIDX 96993

Kneasy:  
<snipped here and there for brevity>
> In PoA during the Quidditch  match / Dementor episode, Harry hears 
> the following "... and then came a new voice, a man's voice, 
> shouting, panicking - "Lily, take Harry and go! It's him! Go! Run! 
> I'll hold him off..." A couple of lines later we have:
> " "You  heard James?" said Lupin, in a strange voice."
> 
> I'd always assumed that James was killed  outside the house. No-
> one, so far as I know has considered the possibility that there  
> was someone else in the house when Voldy arrived.
> 
>  What if the voice Harry hears was not James, James having being 
> caught by surprise and already dead. Suppose it was Lupin's voice? 
> This would neatly explain his "in a strange voice", because he 
> *knows* that it wasn't James.
> 
> I have in the past suggested that Sirius suffered from 'survivors
> guilt'; maybe Lupin does too. He feels a responsibility for the
> deaths of James and Lily. He survived because Voldy went for his
> prime targets first; Lupin would be dealt with later. But he 
> didn't last long enough to get round to him.

Renee:
Though I have to say this is an intriguing theory, it raises a few 
questions: 

#1: Wouldn't Harry have recognised the voice if it was Lupin's? He's 
having a conversation with him when this comes up, so he knows how 
Lupin's voice sounds. (OTOH, it may be difficult to recognise a 
voice when the owner is shouting in panic.)

#2 seems more problematic to me: Sirius believed Lupin was the spy, 
so when he came up with the fatal plan to switch Secret Keepers he 
suggested Wormtail. James and Lily went along with it - wouldn't 
this mean they agreed with Sirius's assessment of Lupin? And even if 
they didn't, would Remus have been told where to find their house? 
Wasnt't he whole idea with this Secret Keeper business that as few 
people as possible knew where it was? I can't see James going behind 
Sirius's back and inviting Lupin anyway; if he thought Sirius was 
out of his mind to distrust Lupin, he'd have said so.     
 
Renee