DD and the rat: Conspiracy theories compared [LONG]

[carolynwhite2]

No: HPFGUIDX 115921


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, drliss at c... wrote:
> 
> There have only been 6 people in the world that we know of to help 
Lupin: his parents, James, Sirius, and Peter, and Dumbledore.  
> 
(snip)
> 
> James, Sirius, and Peter: They became Animagi to help Remus.  Sure, 
there were other really cool aspects to it.  But "really cool" rarely 
gets you through three years of risk-taking and frustration.  "Really 
cool" doesn't make you give Peter all the help you can to accomplish 
this.  "Really cool" doesn't make you exclude Remus from the task 
that you're spending three years on, especially when he IS so 
bright.  I think we can take MWPP at their word when they say the 
three became Animagi specifically to help Remus.  And despite the 
infamous prank, the friendship DID continue, and was close until the 
end.  
(snip) 
> 
 >But I can not see Remus going directly against those four, when 
they have meant everything to him.  And even above MWPP, I can not 
see him going against Dumbledore, who is the only person to ever take 
a public risk on his behalf.  And if Voldemort is going to win, 
Dumbledore must be destroyed.  Remus is plenty smart enough to know 
this.

> Lissa
> 

I think you are skating over Peter a bit, in your keeness to 
exonerate Lupin. Betrayal is not nice, but it doesn't come out of 
thin air. You have made considerable effort to emphasise how close 
the four of them were, so why did Peter do it then? Not only trusted 
by the rest of the marauders, but by Dumbledore and the Order...so 
what went wrong?

Maybe it wasn't all quite so cosy as you imagine. I didn't see Lupin 
making any effort to control Peter's over-sycophantic admiration of 
James, any more than he tried to control James and Sirius attacking 
Snape. There was a pecking order in the MWPP, and Peter was at the 
bottom of it. Lupin didn't care about that, or have any left over 
sympathy for another weak and marginalised individual, despite the 
efforts that Peter had made to be liked. Not very nice.

'Sow that you shall reap', is the oft-quoted Biblical admonition. 

Oh, and since it's apparently all about Harry, and not the adult 
characters' stories, there wouldn't be a parallel showing anywhere 
with the Creevey brothers, would there?

Carolyn