All about Lupin

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 122308


 
> Pippin writes:
> 
> >You did notice, perhaps, that Lupin didn't actually teach Harry 
to produce a corporeal patronus? He stopped the lessons while 
Harry was still only able to produce a silver vapor -- not enough 
to drive a dementor away.
> 
> Arynn replies:
> "I don't pretend to be an expert at fighting dementor, 
Harry...quite the contrary.." Lupin tells Harry on page 189 PoA. 
This suggests that he might not be too good himself. 

Pippin:
<veg>Typical Lupin doublespeak, I'm afraid. It could mean, "I 
don't pretend, I actually am, an expert on fighting dementors." 
Since he did drive away the dementor on the train, he knows 
what it takes to remove one. He can also, without a wand, make 
a light that doesn't go out around them. 

 As Harry points out in OOP, being able to produce a patronus 
when you are not threatened  is quite different from being able to 
do it when there is a dementor around. But the lessons must 
have stopped after the Quidditch match, or Harry would have 
known what form his patronus took.
 
Arynn: 
> A note on the Evil!Lupin theories:
> This is also significant in that Dumbledore is telling Harry 
about how Remus has told him everything. I'm sure that that 
conversation involved quite a few apologies. So it would seem 
Lupin did "fess up" to his lies. 

Pippin:
Dumbledore learned about Prongs from Sirius, I'm afraid. "Last  
night Sirius told meall about how they became Animagi." -PoA ch 
22  

Arynn:  
> Plus, if he were working for Voldy, Remus would have know the 
whole time that Sirius was innocent, so if you're of the ESE!Lupin 
camp, you can't use his not telling about Black to prove he was 
out to harm Harry, 'cos he would have known Black was not a 
threat to Harry in the first place.<

Pippin:
Not necessarily. The Death Eaters do not all know one another, 
so it is perfectly possible that ESE!Lupin might have convinced 
himself  that Sirius was a traitor as well. 

Pippin