DD and the rat (was:Re: Minerva McGonagall-/Dumbledore)

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No: HPFGUIDX 115851


Pippin:
> I speculate: After the disaster at GH, Peter  tipped off Fudge that 
> Sirius had betrayed the Potters and ran for it, knowing that the 
> betrayer would have to come after him and silence him. He  
> faked his death in front of all those Muggle witnesses, expecting 
> that the DMLE would find Sirius guilty of his death. But the real 
> spy was hunting too, and he's the one who killed the Muggles, 
> though whether he was aiming at Peter or Sirius I can't say. 
> Maybe, like Wormtongue in LOTR, his aim was poor because he 
> couldn't decide which he hated more.


SSSusan:
I'm (obviously) quite far behind here, but I didn't see that anyone 
address the two things I'm going to bring up here, at least not in 
the thread links at the end of Pippin's post.

Since presumably a good, strong theory should have not just possible 
actions in it but also explained motivations, could you tell me WHY 
Lupin would hate Sirius & Peter?  I don't see a motive for hatred in 
the slightest. 


Pippin:
> So Wormtail is  either the most dissociated personality since Dr. 
> J and Mr. H, or, just possibly, there are two people called 
> Wormtail in the story. We know there are two Tom Riddles and 
> two Barty Crouches, and we have evidence of two Professor R.J. 
> Lupins. Since Lupin never worked as a professor, the briefcase 
> with that name and title in peeling letters can't orginally have 
> been his. 


SSSusan:
I don't understand how we KNOW that Lupin never taught elsewhere?  
Isn't this a supposition?  I mean, I've seen others postulating that 
Lupin might have taught at Durmstrang, for instance.  No canon to 
*know*, but unless I missed something recently, I don't think there's 
canon that he did *not* teach elsewhere previously either.

As to the peeling letters, I also think it's a bit strong to say this 
means the briefcase "can't" have originally belonged to Remus.  
First, if he *did* teach somewhere else, beginning shortly after 
leaving Hogwarts, the letters might have begun to peel by now.  
Second, even if it that round of teaching wasn't all that long ago, 
given the type of quality apparel Lupin tends to wear, perhaps he 
could only afford a cheap briefcase, whose lettering doesn't wear as 
well as more expensive models.

If the peeling lettering is the only evidence we have of two 
Professor R.J. Lupins, I think it's not all that strong a piece of 
evidence.

Siriusly Snapey Susan