Why Snape's worst memory? Culpable Lupin

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No: HPFGUIDX 137331

I was reading some posts in another group, and someone brought this 
up, and Since it sorta has something to do with something JKR said 
in the interview and also Snape's Memory, I was just wondering what 
all of you though.

Now, I love Lupin as much as the next HP fan, but, I was thinking, 
wasn't Lupin a prefect in fifty year, and I was just wondering, 
shouldn't he have put a stop to what happened between 
Snape/Sirius/James.

Now, I know, some are still saying the memory was fake or fixed, but 
Snape did pull it right out of his head in the scene, and we have 
JKR saying well, Pensive Scene's are real, I wish the interviewer 
had just asked was the Snape's Worst Memory real, but anywayz. My 
though is going on that it was real so please don't give me a 
chopping block if you think its fake, its just a though someone else 
had.

But, Lupin as far as we know isn't evil, but, isn't he culpable for 
not stopping his friends from abusing another student at school be 
him prefect or not? I mean, I know its said that well, Snape and 
James hated each other, maybe they both has tag team hexing matches 
down the corridors of Hogwarts, but, in that memory Snape wasn't 
doing anything to them. So....If Snape is culpable for bad actions, 
isn't Lupin culpable for his neglect of duties as a prefect? To me, 
his actions make him just as much a party to what James and Sirius 
were doing.

I mean, if he wasn't a Prefect the, it sorta shows that even Neville 
had more guts than Lupin at a younger age to stand up to his friends 
and say lay off guys he didn't do anything to us.

Lily seemed to be the only one who would stand up and tell them they 
were wrong. I just wonder, how this all plays out in the end of 
things, I mean, Sirius even admits when Harry tells him what 
happened in the Pensive Memory that He wasn't proud of what he did, 
and, It also says that Harry told them what he saw in the pensive. 
So, to me if it wasn't a real memory, they would have said hay wait 
a minute that wasn't how it happened.

So, even if Snape does end up being a bad guy, it still seems to me 
Lupin is wrong for not standing up to his friends, and would that 
not make him, to use JKR's own word--culpable?

Just a though.

KarentheUnicorn