Two Wormtails was Re: Plot in OotP (wand confusion)

[Shanoah Alkire]

No: HPFGUIDX 118394


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "khinterberg" <khinterberg at y...>
wrote:
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> > -Nora notes that she does not have books with her, and would 
> > appreciate some filled-in (as in, non-selectively excerpted :)
canon 
> > for Lupin's reactions to the Map
> 
Off the topic slightly, but two things that attract my attention:

> "*Well*?" said Snape again.  "This parchment is plainly full of Dark
> Magic.  This is supposed to be your area of expertise, Lupin.  Where
> do you imagine Potter got such a thing?"
> Lupin looked up and, by the merest half-glance in Harry's direction,
> warned him not to interrupt.
> "Full of Dark Magic?" he repeated mildly.  "Do you really think so,
> Severus?  It looks to me as though it is merely a piece of parchment
> that insults anybody who reads it.  Childish, but surely not
> dangerous?  I imagine Harry got it from a joke shop--"

First, note that Snape mentions "Dark Magic", not "Defense Against
the Dark Arts" as Lupin's area of expertise.

Second, Snape suggests the parchment is "full of Dark Magic", and
Lupin evades the question, and never gives a straight answer.

Were the dark arts involved in it's creation? And was Lupin the one
casting it?

--Arcum