Lupin's secrets was Re: Two Wormtails

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 118634


Jen wrote:
> <snip> And there is a mystery component this series, even as I don't 
> believe this is ultimately a spy novel. Certainly both sides 
> employ 'operatives' whose job it is to infiltrate enemy territory 
> and report back information. We have numerous accounts of the DE's 
> infiltrating the MOM. It's not beyond belief that Dumbledore also 
> has agents who gather information for him, even if they don't 
> personally become DE's to do so. 

Carol responds:
I realize that Fudge is not the most reliable source of information,
but he says straight out that "Dumbledore had many useful spies." We
can safely include Sneape and possibly Mundungus Fletcher among these
spies. (Probably Fudge didn't know the identity of the spies or they'd
have been much less useful, but I see no reason to question the
accuracy of his statement.) If DD had "many useful spies" during VW1,
he probably still has them. And I don't merely mean spies within
Hogwarts, like the portraits, who apparently report to Dumbledore just
as Snape does. Maybe that's what Lupin is doing for the Order--not as
a DE but as an unemployed DADA and known werewolf who can frequent
places inaccessibly to Snape (or McGonagall) during the school year. I
wouldn't be surprised if Tonks, with her metamorphmagus abilities, is
also a spy.

Carol, still wondering if Tonks can transform herself to resemble a
real person, male or female, or only imaginary somewhat older women
with hair and noses different from her own