Lupin is worse was 'Re: Are there no depths

[justcarol67]

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Debbie wrote: 
> <snip> One more point.  Lupin's biggest failure to act, IMO, was not 
> telling Dumbledore that Sirius was an Animagus during PoA.  However, 
> Dumbledore did not reject him because of this failure.  In fact, 
> Dumbledore specifically mentions Lupin when he calls for Sirius to 
> round up the old crowd at the end of GoF.  I expect he'll remember 
> that if Voldemort does come calling. <snip>
> 
Carol:
Without getting into the ESE!Lupin question, I don't know whether
sending Sirius to Lupin had anything to do with demonstrating trust in
Lupin. IMO, Lupin was the logical, in fact the only, place for Sirius
to start in alerting the "old crowd"--the only surviving member of the
old Order, other than Dumbledore, who knew that Sirius had not
betrayed the Potters or murdered Peter Pettigrew and twelve Muggles.
Sirius could not have gone alone to any of the Order members. The
moment he showed his (human) face, he'd have been blasted by a
"Stupefy!" (or, in Mrs. Figg's case, battered by a bag full of catfood
cans). He'd have had to wait patiently in dog form while Lupin told
his story to each Order member in turn. In fact, Sirius wouldn't even
really be needed once he'd alerted Lupin, who could do the job more
efficiently without the extra burden of having to explain Sirius as
well as Voldemort. So in my view, contacting Lupin probably had less
to do with forgiveness (though that no doubt played a role) than with
simple practicality. There was no one else Sirius could safely go to.

Carol