[HPforGrownups] Re: [Just a comment about Lupin's malady.

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 108517

--- huntergreen_3 <patientx3 at aol.com> wrote:

> Lupin would be the clear choice here, I just can't see 
> Sirius sitting down and trying to decide between Lupin and Peter 
> being the spy. Lupin was almost as close to him as James was, there
> had to be a reason he suspected him (if ESE!Lupin was acting odd,
> for example...).

I assume that one of the results of the Prank (sending Snape to the
Whomping Willow to meet a werewolf) was that there was a bit of a
divide between Sirius and Remus afterwards.  Sirius would have
apologized for using Remus and Remus would have accepted it, because
after all in the end no one got hurt.  But I can imagine that Remus
felt more than a little miffed about being used (and about Snape
-their supposed mortal enemy - now knowing about Remus' malady) and
Sirius feeling a little guilty and that a certain coolness resulted. 
At the same time James was getting more involved with Lily and wasn't
as aware as he might have been about tensions in the group.  And then
they all graduated and weren't dorm-mates anymore so there was
another reason for them not being together all the time.

And IMO Peter (his animagus should have been a jackal, not a rat)
moved in to push the small divide into an open chasm.  Even if he
hadn't gone over to Voldemort, I think Peter would have been jealous
of the respect that James and Sirius had for Remus - and not for
Peter.  

But I also think that as Members of the Order of the Phoenix under
Dumbledore's leadership, Sirius had no business trying to decide on
his own who the spy in the ranks was.  He should have told Dumbledore
if he really suspected Remus.  Lives were at stake.  This was not
just some Hogwarts Gryffindor dorm plot.  Sirius was out of line in
not reporting his suspicions.

Magda

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