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

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 123301


 
> Alshain muses:
.  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.
>

Pippin:
You said it far better than me. But there's also this:
"First think of the person who lives in disguise
Who deals in secrets, and tells naught but lies" --GoF ch 31

Pettigrew certainly lives in disguise and he deals in secrets. But 
he is not a skillful liar.How could he get away with spying for a 
year? Eliminate the impossible, and what remains, however 
improbable, must be the truth.  Remus was the spy.

He did not, of course, betray the secret, *he* was whole reason 
for  the secret-keeper switch. But I think he found out who the 
real secret-keeper was, probably from Lily. IMO,  he told 
Voldemort, asking for Lily's life in return, and maybe Harry's too, 
since JKR hints on her website that Voldemort's second didn't 
know about the prophecy.

Pippin
who thinks that Remus also had a role in the prank, and Sirius 
knew it. *That* was the reason they couldn't go to Dumbledore 
with their suspicions. It would have meant admitting that Sirius 
really had tried to kill Snape.