Not so ESE:Lupin

pippin_999 foxmoth at qnet.com
Mon May 17 03:59:54 UTC 2004


No: HPFGUIDX 98561

> 
> animallover_11:
> 
> I have been putting alot of thought into the whole ESE:Lupin 
and I just can't buy into that. I don't think that he has any
alterior 
motives in his actions.  I have noticed that some are very quick 
with the support for him being Evil. (infact i am very impressed by 
the thought and determination of some people in this theory!!) 
The only thing I have to back up my feelings about Lupin is 
Crookshanks.  He is part Kneazle (which I have since found out 
are pretty good character judges (somewhere in Fantastic 
Beast)) and he seemed to be right on the money for 
Peter/Scabbers.  
> 
> If he was able to pick up the not so nice aspects of Peter he 
should have been able to with Lupin as well. <

Trouble is, Crookshanks doesn't react to Draco, Crabbe or 
Goyle, either. (PoA ch 5) It seems to me  he doesn't have the 
powers of a full Kneazle, but something more like Lord Thingy's 
ability to know when someone is lying. But Lord Thingy can be 
fooled, as we are told, by shutting down those feelings and 
memories that contradict the lie. I suspect Lupin is doing this, 
but of course I can't prove it. All I can do is point out  that many
of the things he says sound suspiciously equivocal--much like 
Harry's letter to Sirius in OOP "she's nearly as nice as your 
mum." [paraphrasing]


One of the things Lupin says that doesn't sound equivocal is  
that he's not much of a potion-maker, so for whatever comfort it's 
worth, I don't think ESE!Lupin was slipping Confusing and 
Befuddlement draughts to Sirius, as someone wondered in 
another post.

I think that clue is what I call an "odd fish". It's a red herring in 
OOP but may be a genuine clue in future books. Kind of like all 
the death omens in PoA.

Pippin








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