Lupin and James

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No: HPFGUIDX 99835

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Susan" <teilani2002 at y...> wrote:
> 
> Wow, that thing got published?  Kneasy, bboy, one of you two better 
> get crackin and publish some of these great theories that have been 
> posted here.  If a person can get published for _speculating_ about 
> some other author's characters and storylines, especially considering 
> what a cash cow HP is, then wow, we could all be as rich as the Queen!
> 

Kneasy:
You mean that you'd pay to read my manic burblings? How very
interesting. My pension is assured.

I've dipped into this Official Guide and it's even more paranoid than
anyone on site. Good fun, but everyone and everything is suspect or
a devious clue. You end up going round in ever-diminishing circles
until you vanish up your own fundament. If you distrust  everything
what can you base your theories on? You need solid ground somewhere.

Susan: 
> But Siriusly, I agree with whoever (so sorry, I can't find that post) 
> said that it would be unbelievably cruel for one of Harry's parents 
> to be alive all this time.  To leave Harry with the Dursleys, to let 
> him grow up with no friends, no loved ones, no support, only for him 
> to find out that one of his parents was alive the whole time would be 
> enough, IMO, to send anyone over the edge of sanity!  Plus, once LV 
> became Vapor!Mort (I love that one) what would be the point?  The 
> entire wizarding community's celebrating, LV doesn't get any of his 
> strength back until Harry's 11, why hide for ten peaceful years?!  
> Why not enjoy watching Harry grow up, and then, when LV comes back, 
> go into hiding, especially now that Harry's _relatively_ safe at 
> Hogwart's under DD's protection?
> 

Kneasy:
This Switching Spell  stuff is a bit of a frost so far as I'm concerned.
So far as canon goes it's used to swaps bits of things, not entire bodies.
If it worked as the theory describes, why hasn't Voldy used it? Bloody
sight better than being stuck above Quirrell's  back collar stud.
Transfiguration is unlikely to  work either. James might *look* like Lupin
but does that mean he'd be a werewolf too? I doubt it; he'd be a surface
copy, he'd have to get bitten by a werewolf to carry it off convincingly.

And as you say, what would be the point? James wasn't Voldy's target,
was he? Why hide? No point at all that I can see. He'd need a damn
good reason to hide away for 12 years. OK, I can come up with
some fanciful ideas - James as coward; James as Voldy's helper; James
as Lily's murderer - but I can't work up any enthusiasm for them.

Hmm. I don't know though... Have to think about this. Murderer, eh?
I wnder...

Kneasy