Why distrus Lupin? was: Why Do You Like Sirius?

[alshainofthenorth]

No: HPFGUIDX 123283


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "cubfanbudwoman" 
<susiequsie23 at s...> wrote:
> 
> Renee:
> > > If they [James & Sirius] had no particular reason to distrust 
> > > Lupin, the possibility that it *was* Peter ought to have 
> > > crossed their minds. 
> 
> SSSusan:
> FWIW, I agree fully with Renee on this.  This is surely an area 
that 
> JKR is going to flesh out in book 6 or 7.  Whether the friendships 
> among the four marauders began to disintegrate "naturally" post-
> Hogwarts or not, as Carol has suggested, I don't think that could 
> account for James & Sirius suspecting Remus over Peter.  I believe 
> there must have been something else -- an event, a rumor, 
> *something* -- which caused them to have doubts about Lupin's 
> loyalty.
> 

Alshain muses:
I wonder if this may be related to how James, Sirius and Peter found 
out how Remus was a werewolf and what he had to do to keep it from 
them. He kept inventing stories about a sick mother whom he had to 
see once a month, and for one year, perhaps even two, he managed to 
fool them. How do people react after they've known someone for that 
long and found out that he's been deceiving them from the moment they 
met him? If he's a good friend, they may forgive him without a second 
thought, but they wouldn't be likely to just forget about it. Was 
that the thing that undermined Remus' trustworthiness? "He's pulled 
the wool over our eyes once, he can do it again. He was our friend, 
and he lied to us." Peter, OTOH, was a toady and a fairly dim one at 
that, but his loyalty was unquestionable. 

Remus seems to have been the better liar, the better actor, the one 
with more to gain from betraying his friends than Peter (Voldemort 
was courting the outcasts like the giants), and he *is* a werewolf. 
James and Sirius at least, Peter too if he had any wizard blood, 
would have been steeped in horror stories, which gave a foothold to 
any anti-Dark creatures propaganda. Finally, with the way people were 
treating werewolves, I don't blame J & S for thinking that even Remus 
Lupin could get enough and give in to self-fulfilling prophecies.

Alshain