[HPforGrownups] Re: Is Lupin James?

[charme]

No: HPFGUIDX 109779

From: <drliss at comcast.net>

> Lissa:
>
> If Lupin's been James all this time, James has been doing a pretty darn
good acting job.  Lupin hasn't broken character once, and although they were
extremely good friends, we can see from the Pensieve scene that there were
some major differences in their personalities.  Plus, even though Harry
probably would have responded, Lupin makes NO attempt to contact Harry
throughout GoF.  If he were really James, I suspect he would have sent a
letter.  It would have been natural enough- they did develop a relatively
close relationship, and by the end of PoA Harry knew that Lupin had been one
of his father's best friends, so he was more than a teacher.
>
> We've already had one masquerader.  And we have Tonks.  (Who all's got
bets on her being the traitor this time?)  I think Lupin being James would
be too repetitive.
>
> Sad to say, I think James is definitely dead.
>
> Liss

charme:

I also agree that James is definitely dead.  That being said, this whole
thing about Lupin is kinda freaky, simply because I noticed in OoP JKR
doesn't write *anything* about him fighting anyone in DoM. He simply jumps
in front of Malfoy while Malfoy is aiming at Harry at the last minute -
everyone there has detail surrounding who they're fighting, when they fall,
etc.  If Lupin was James, don't you believe James would have been in the
thick of it? Something is fishy there...or maybe I'm being paranoid....

charme