The Timing of Lupin WAS Re: Dumbledore and Lupin

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 109171

> > Sophierom:
> > I don't have my book here, so I can't be sure, but isn't the 
reason
> > Lupin doesn't bind Sirius  immediately that Lupin has seen 
Peter's
> > name on the map, and he now  knows the Sirius is  innocent? 
> > If this is the case, then of course he's going to disarm
> > Harry first. He knows Harry is out for revenge, and Lupin doesn't
> > want Harry hexing the wrong man.
 
> Kneasy:
> A name on a map does not make Peter innocent. 
> It just makes him alive. It provides an opportunity to ask 
questions,
> questions which are never  asked. Lupin puts words in Sirius' 
mouth,
> Sirius doesn't have to say a damn thing. So who told Lupin? DD?

Jen: Technically, it wouldn't take much advanced critical thinking 
for Lupin to put two & two together here. He sees Peter is alive and 
has to ask himself, how & why? Didn't Peter die a hero trying to 
take on Sirius all by himself? Well, hold on then, if he was still 
alive after facing Sirius, why hide when Sirius is safe behind bars 
at Azkaban & miss out on all the hero-worship? 
Unless....unless....things aren't as they seem and Peter was trying 
to hide something. But what? 

If you couple Lupin's musings with the shred of doubt he felt that 
Sirius would ever betray James, it would all fall in place pretty 
quickly. He realizes Sirius is here after Peter, not Harry, and the 
next leap to make is that reason Sirius is after Peter is Peter is 
the guilty one.

Lupin, after all, knows these guys like the back of his hand. He's 
seen Reckless!Sirius before and Wimpy!Peter; this 'new' reality of 
Peter as betrayer and Sirius out to avenge James' death would fit 
better in Lupin's mind than the old story. 

That's how I see it, anyway.  Jen