James' Choice (Was Marauders' Map, Marauders and Voldemort)

[meriaugust]

No: HPFGUIDX 109349

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "mhbobbin" <mhbobbin at y...> 
wrote:
> mhbobbin:
> 
> Sirius suspected Lupin. Lupin suspected Sirius [ Shrieking Shack 
> scene].  James had to make a choice as to who the most likely spy 
> was. I wonder how James made that choice. We know DD tried to 
> persuade James to make him the Secret Keeper. James rejected that 
> idea. DD then was not certain of which of James' three friends was 
> the spy, however, DD did not want Sirius to be made the Secret 
> Keeper.
> 
> We know James chose Sirius rather than Lupin---the inference is 
that 
> James thought Lupin was the spy.  We're told why Pettigrew was not 
> thought to be the spy and was still trusted. Did James think Lupin 
> was the spy because he was a werewolf? Did James have other yet 
> unrevealed reasons to suspect Lupin had an alliance with Voldemort?
> 
> Maybe James didn't make a choice. I wonder if James hedged his 
bets--
> -after all, so much was at stake. Is it possible that James also 
had 
> a spell-arrangement with Lupin as well? 
> 
> There's still something so odd about Lupin's relationship to Harry-
-
> how he shivers when Harry mentions his parents, how he doesn't 
touch 
> Harry except when he holds Harry back from The Veil, and the JKR 
> joke at the end of OotP which has Lupin saying to Harry "Keep in 
> Touch."
> 
> I know there are theorists who put forth an ESE!Lupin theory but 
I'm 
> not convinced yet. Nor am I convinced that the Switching Spell 
> theory out there--that James and Lupin switched souls-- is the 
> solution either. Maybe we just don't have enough information.
> 
> But there's much more to learn about James' trust / mistrust of 
> Lupin. [shiver]
> 
> mhbobbin

Meri now: I don't think that the fact that James eventually chose 
Sirius (before choosing Peter) is any indication that he didn't 
trust Lupin. I think it is more of an indication that Sirius was his 
*best friend*. He and Black were, as is said by many people, like 
brothers. And Lupin, no matter how much he and James cared for each 
other, just weren't close as sibs. Nine times out of ten you would 
trust your sib before a friend, right? And then, IIRC, they chose 
Pettigrew because who would suspect that *that* wizard (ie: someone 
talentless and weak) would be trusted with a job like Secret 
Keeping. If you ask me, Sirius and Lupin were the ones doing all the 
susposing when it came to who the traitor was, and James simply 
picked his bestest (sorry to make up words) friend and brother to 
take on the job of keeping secrets, that is, until he gave it to the 
actual traitor. Which was just mindbogglingly dumb. But that's 
another post. Who knows, maybe he flipped a coin. 
Meri - who can't wait to reread 1-5 once more before summer is 
over...