DD and the rat: Conspiracy theories compared [LONG]

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 115891


Neri:

. But the conspiracy theories are so much more complicated 
than the canon version of the Shrieking Shack that I shudder to 
think how JKR is going to explain them in the middle of Book 7 
dramatic climax. I expect ESE!Lupin will have to hold Harry at 
wand point and then take three chapters to explain to him how it 
is possible that he's ESE, including drawing that chart of the 
DoM positions. And we can't even count on DD filling the rest of 
the details later because he might not be alive by then.
> 
> I really hope the resolution of Book 7 will be simpler than that.


Pippin:

I don't think it's *that* complicated. Most of the ESE!Lupin theory 
covers  things that we've already been promised:  more about 
the prank, more about the diary plot,  more about  the events at 
Godric's Hollow and immediately afterward, the resolution of the 
Peter Pettigrew plot thread etc.


Once the reader accepts that Voldemort had a secret 
accomplice, the rest will fall into place.That plot development 
goes hand and hand with the  search for a traitor within the 
present Order. That  is almost a given, considering what we've 
been told. Both Hagrid and Sirius say that the horrible thing 
about Voldemort's reign of terror was not knowing whom they 
could trust. They lay more emphasis on that than on deaths and 
disappearances. 

The clues that relate specifically to Lupin: his difficulties 
with the boggart spell, and his possible co-operation in Peter's 
escape, are not that complex--and *he* doesn't have to present a 
chart of where everyone was in the Death Chamber in order to 
confess to killing Sirius. Harry only has to say "It was YOU" and 
Lupin can say that it was a desperate thing, but he was fortunate 
that no one saw him. It will be left as  an exercise for the reader 
to go back and figure out why. 

We don't need an in depth exposition of Lupin's frustration about 
the way he was treated either...we got that in OOP, where the 
attitude of the wizarding world toward  Harry was very much what 
Lupin must have experienced once he left Hogwarts. Harry was 
regarded as unbalanced and possibly dangerous, persecuted 
by Umbridge, jerked around by the ministry, had no one to turn to 
except his friends who were sympathetic but couldn't help much, 
and was banned from doing the one thing that he seemed born 
to do. Sound familiar?


Pippin