Meeting Lupin was Re: some sirius hinting... yay puns!

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 110212

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, drliss at c... wrote:
> Lissa:
> 
> As to where Lupin was during the christening... I had a new 
thought.  Dumbledore has mentioned spies before.  I'm 
guessing Severus Snape was not the only one.  Wouldn't Lupin- 
technically a Dark Creature and someone who (although a half 
blood) would have something to gain from Voldemort- be an 
excellent spy for the Order?  Especially since he's so good at 
hiding his true feelings?  
> 
> Given that she says she'd love to actually meet Lupin, and he's 
a wonderful person, I'd guess that ESE!Lupin isn't an option.  But 
maybe Pippin's got something close... Lupin's trying to give the 
DEs the impression he's ESE?  And maybe that's why he 
couldn't be at the christening, because he was spying on the 
DEs, or the creatures allied to the death eaters?  (which seems 
a little more plausible, or he might have a better idea about 
Peter.)<

Or maybe he was sent to spy on the creatures allied to the Death 
Eaters,  and found himself feeling more at home among them 
than among his old friends? JKR says some nice things about 
Lupin, I know, but she's never said he was a good person.

  I know she said he was wonderful and she'd like to meet him 
(maybe she thinks she could talk some courage into him) but 
the thing is, if evil were only done by horrible people, then the 
DE's  and their real world models would be right. All we'd have to 
do to make the world a better place is figure out who the horrible 
people are and get rid of them. Unfortunately it's not that simple. 

I'd go so far as to say that Lupin, under ordinary circumstances,  
like the classroom or the dinner table, would be a good person. 
Unfortunately his circumstances aren't ordinary. He's being 
oppressed, and like everyone in his world, he's subject to 
manipulation by Voldemort.

We've seen, in Kreacher and Dobby, that people who are 
desperate to escape oppression can overcome their deepest 
inhibitions. Just like a drowning person will sometimes push a 
would be rescuer under in  a desperate attempt to reach the 
air,so the oppressed sometimes do terrible things in their 
desperate desire for freedom. And Voldemort is ready to take 
advantage of that.

Pippin