Just a comment about Lupin's malady.

[Lanthiriel S]

No: HPFGUIDX 108744

On Mon, 02 Aug HunterGreen said:

>Interesting analysis! It very well could be that Sirius didn't 
>exactly suspect Lupin of being a spy, but just had a general feeling 
>of mistrust about him. However, though, this doesn't explain why 
>James and Lily went along with it. Remember, who they chose as a 
>secret-keeper was up to them. They could have chose Lupin if they 
>wanted to, but they went with Peter. Why?

My response:

I have always thought that it was a simple process of
elimination. Taking James out of the equation of
course, you have three Marauders left. Sirius and
James had been like brothers and James - knowing that
Sirius had turned his back on his family and their
support of the pureblood cause/dark arts - wouldn't
even begin to suspect him. That leaves Peter and
Remus. Of the two, Remus is a dark creature - a member
of a species highly distrusted, even feared, by most
of the wizarding world. Even though they had supported
Remus through their years at Hogwarts, perhaps it was
just easier to believe that he (because of his
condition) could go over to Voldemort's cause rather
than little Peter, who - from what we know of him as a
young man - seems to have been rather inept (or at
least pretending to be inept) and a bit on the dim (or
at least immature) side (I'm taking this from the
"Snape's Worst Memory" chapter of OotP). Now, that may
not have been what Peter was truly like, but it was
how he was perceived by James and Sirius. I think the
idea of him being a spy would have been inconceivable
to them - whereas they knew that Remus had the
intelligence to pull off such a deception.

My thoughts at least.

Lanthiriel




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