Support for the ESE Lupin theory!

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 123883



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> Alla:
> 
> I have to take certain type of medication every day and let me tell 
> you - you absolutely CAN forget about it. (Granted, my life is not 
> threatened if I forget about it, but it is not good for me either to 
> forget on the regular basis)
> 
> It WAS dangerous what Remus did, but he just discovered that one of 
> his friends whom he believed to be dead for twelve years - can be 
> alive. He also discovered that another one of his friends,whom he 
> believed to be a traitor for twelve years  may not be one.
> 
> I'd say he was in a very interesting state of mind and it is quite 
> possible that taking a potion was the last thing on his mind.

Finwitch:

Oh, indeed it was. Just - well, I mean, Pettigrew had BEEN there all
the time and he didn't notice? How about -- well, yes, about Sirius
having been innocently in Azkaban... I mean he must feel that he
absolutely MUST settle things right at once.

I don't see Lupin's act as all that irresponsible, BTW. I mean, look
at WHERE all was happening. The very place where Lupin had spent his
transformation-times as a student.

Lupin may not have thought about the *potion*, (which was Snape's
responsibility to brew and bring anyway. He left the map on the desk
so Snape would know where to bring it, just in case he DID arrive in
time) but Lupin *was* heading to the place where his transformation
would be of LEAST danger. And since that place was also the one where
he wanted to go at the moment, well, why the hell not...

About the kids, well... in the past, his animagi friends had done what
the Potion did *now*. 

Perhaps, not just to indicate the regained friendship, but also to
tell Sirius that he's likely to transform - is that he uses the
ANIMAGI name, after all Moony, Padfoot etc. began so that he'd be
getting their company. Very subtle. Indicating he may need *Padfoot* soon.

It wasn't foolish of him to go there, nor about the explaining things
-- After all, he expected - as things went when the Moon rose - that
Padfoot would keep him from biting the kids. Hadn't they done that
sort of thing over and over again as students, every full moon?

They blew on the method on bringing Pettigrew in, but otherwise things
worked out reasonably well. And since *both* Lupin and Sirius had been
 planning to kill the traitor Pettigrew, well... 

All in all, it wasn't quite enough. And that's why Lupin quit. Because
he didn't want to take another chance, not another close call. I think
part of it was that he had been dependant on Snape to take care of it,
instead of taking the measures himself.

Finwitch