Is Lupin James? (related to James' Choice as well)

[M.Clifford]

No: HPFGUIDX 109872

> mhbobbin at y... wrote:
> (By the way I too think he has a secret, but this isn't it.)
> And maybe that other arrangement is the Secret that Lupin is 
> hiding. In addition, we don't know where Lupin was in the year of 
> GOF--which makes no sense to me--or what his mission is for the 
> Order. Lupin stays at Grimmauld Place but disappears for long 
> periods--and it doesn't seem to be related to his werewolf 
> problem. 
> > 
> 
>  
> heather: Your post crossed with mine, but I agree - there's 
something fishy about the wolf. 
> I said elsewhere that he has a link to DD, but here - it's not 
> just he disappeared from the story, but that it is 
> deliberately left blank where he went. It only takes one 
> sentence "He's negotiating with goblins" to clear up missing 
> characters, but instead we get deliberate vagueness. 


Valky:
I agree with you both that it is the 'vagueness', that seems so 
deliberately applied to Lupin that is making it so suspicious.

for mbobbin We have three clues to where Remus Lupin went to in the 
year GOF:
1 A the end of POA Lupin is observed by Harry as seeming to be in a 
hurry to leave, as they say their Goodbyes. Remus is concealing his 
urgency in most of what he says to Harry, the farewell is a slightly 
lingering and the time he gives Harry, although he seems to be in a 
rush for some reason, is not merely polite. If he takes this extra 
time in spite of his rush because he is loathe to leave Harry's side 
it throw ESE!Lupin a curveball, which I personally prefer here, and 
notches one up for the Red Herring or something like it. However, it 
could be just 'good cover' for ESE, and I hate that!
Either way Lupin is leaving because *He Has Business*, somewhere and 
the Werewolf/Parents thing is a tangible pardon out at best, its 
just an excuse.

2 At the end of GOF Sirius is given instructions by DD to go and 
alert Remus Lupin then lie low at Lupins for a while.
Nothing more is said, its all so very vague but we can draw a few 
sketches around it. 
Wherever Lupin is during GOF it appears either he has returned by 
the time LV is reborn or DD *doesn't know* that he isn't home. The 
latter makes all the current speculations very viable.

3 Finally as I have mentioned, at the beginning of OOtP Harry 
observes that Lupin has greyed and tired quite some more than he 
ever was in POA. Giving weight to a speculation that in the year GOF 
Remus was not at home with his feet on the couch. 

Lead this all where you will because I have no idea what the secret 
Remus hides is.

Secondly for mbobbin also: While you are at great pains considering 
in depth the secret keeper switch, I would like to add for you;
If James and Remus had done a switching spell, then due to the fact 
that the Remus *we know* has no clue about the SK switch at the last 
minute then *James* wasn't in on it not *Remus*.

Put another way for clarity;
If we are given that Remus is James;
Hence it is James!Remus that doesn't know Peter was SK;

It follows that the *real* Remus Lupin and not James made the final 
decision to switch to Peter, with Lily, and not the *real* James 
Potter.


Now for both of you:
At this point I must say that the reason I don't buy the James!Remus 
switch is that it was originally based on a theory that the *Potter 
Bloodline* was the essential paradigm to LV's reason for wanting to 
kill Harry. This has been fully sunk, as you know.

Besides even before it was sunk, I never really bought that James 
Potter would be such a coward. 

However, just supposing that the switch was for *another* reason; 
like for example James *trusted* Remus with his family, and *Sirius* 
with his secret while he went out into the big blue to seek a magic 
or artifact to save his young family and _accidentally_ got stuck in 
the werewolfs body because *Remus and Lily* made the mistake of 
trusting Peter, I start to see that it *could* happen.

Best to You All
Valky