Who stuns Sirius? (was Re: The Veil)

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 111097

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "cdayr" <cdayr at y...> 
wrote:

> I feel pretty sure it wasn't Harry. Although all you ESE!Lupin 
> theorists might wanna grab this one as further proof for your 
> arguments, why would Lupin have been spending all that time 
> with Sirius at GP, alone, tons of chances to do him in in some 
> logical way, and then suddenly act now. Nope, not Lupin. 
> (Please, JKR, not Lupin) 
> 

You were obviously thinking "Lupin" in your first sentence above, 
but you wrote "Harry". I'm not nit-picking-- it is this sort of 
unconscious confusion that tipped me off to ESE!Lupin in the 
first place. There is an essential vagueness about Lupin, such 
that we're not really sure who he is. We don't really know what 
he's after. A teaching post at Hogwarts? He had it, and threw it 
away.  Political power for his kind? Not on the Order's agenda, 
sorry. Dumbledore  isn't promising anyone the rights and 
freedoms that have been denied for centuries. Voldemort is.

But regardless of motive,   it obviously wouldn't do to kill Sirius 
while they were alone at GP. Even if ESE!Lupin gave himself an 
alibi and tried to frame someone else, the only possible 
suspects would be those admitted to the House, which would 
raise once again the possibility of a spy among the Order. That's 
the last thing a real spy would want.

Sirius couldn't be killed unless there was some way to attribute it 
to enemy action, and that was impossible as long as he 
remained safely at GP. I'll save the full analysis of Lupin's 
behavior in the battle for the ESE!Lupin essay, but unless there 
was someone invisible in the room, Lupin was the only one 
besides Bella in position to have nailed Sirius.

I can't say at this point  whether ESE!Lupin knew he would have 
to kill Sirius all along, or acted in panic when it became clear that 
Kreacher's treachery would be discovered. Some of both, maybe.

Pippin
going back to work on the ESE!Lupin essay now