Sirius & Remus post-Hogwarts (was: Snape and McGonagall)

[Renee]

No: HPFGUIDX 119529


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" 
<justcarol67 at y...> wrote:
> 
> Clearly James and Sirius suspected him [Remus] of being the 
traitor later on,
> and that suspicion had to have some sort of basis, something more 
than
> James's unwillingness to distrust Sirius or the supposed 
impossibility
> that the traitor could be Peter.

Renee:
Is there a canon statement saying James didn't trust Remus? Or was 
he merely unwilling to assume Sirius could be wrong? 

Carol:
 It must have originated in some
> change in behavior by Remus himself, which was misunderstood by the
> others. Also, the suspicion was in place as early as Harry's 
baptism,
> fifteen months before Godric's Hollow, at which Lupin was
> conspicuously not present, even as a witness. 

Renee:
I don't think we can draw any conclusions from Lupin's absence at 
Harry's baptism, because IIRC only Sirius was present, which means 
that Peter was absent, too. Yet he gets to be the Secret Keeper 
later on, so I don't think this counts.  

Moreover, the information that someone close to the Potters was a 
Voldemort spy probably came from Snape, and it seems unlikely Snape 
started working for Dumbledore as early as Harry's birth, fifteen 
months before Godric's Hollow. Also, why assume any focused 
suspicion among the Potters' friends before the information about 
the spy was passed on to the Order?