All about Lupin (warning: rant)

[pippin_999]

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> Gerry:
> Hi Pippin
> 
> OK, first of all, I really, really can't see any of this. No clues
no nothing. No evidence whatsoever. Just a theory made up from 
missing information and wishful thinking (sorry)
> 

Pippin:
That's quite all right <g>. The thing is, there's little evidence in 
canon that Peter was the spy or the Muggle killer, either. Sirius 
actually says that he never guessed Peter was the spy. He would 
hardly have chosen Peter as the Secret-Keeper if he'd had the 
slightest suspicion. 

 And he says that Peter blew up the street with a wand held 
behind his back, but even if Sirius thinks he  saw this (how??) no 
one else did.  There's supposed to be a  famous law school 
demonstration where someone runs into a classroom and 
threatens the teacher with a banana. People always think it's a 
gun. Sirius, like the watching Muggles, may not have seen what 
he thought he saw.

You asked in  a previous post why I believe the theory. I suppose  
I like to think Jo has an artist's pride in her work, and it's easier 
for me to believe that she made the character she calls her 
favorite among the adults a  victim of evil rather than a victim of 
sloppy writing. All that missing information got left out by 
accident? I don't think so.

I don't regard myself as  subversive theorist. I'm not trying to 
invent an alternate context for the books, I'm trying to make 
sense of the context as I find it. I suppose I am a conspiracy 
theorist, but only because in each of the books so far a 
conspiracy has been unmasked. 

Pippin
who learned today that the Cambridge spy Kim Philby had a 
stammer like Professor Quirrell