Not so ESE:Lupin
pippin_999
foxmoth at qnet.com
Mon May 17 03:59:54 UTC 2004
No: HPFGUIDX 98561
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> animallover_11:
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> 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.
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> 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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