Is Snape right about Remus

[Cathy Drolet]

No: HPFGUIDX 135181

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Inge" <Elvishooked at h...> wrote:
> Lynn said:
> "Well, actually, it could kill his furry rear end.  Remember, he's 
> living with the werewolves and, since many are listening to Greyback, 
> they could very easily be turned against him.  All it would take is a 
> word from Snape."
> SNIP
> 
> Inge:
> how can Remus live among his kind -  
> unharmed and trusted?


Sharon said: 
>I don't have my book with me either - can someone look up that scene at 
Christmas?  I vaguely remember Remus saying that he *wasn't* trusted, 
not entirely, because he'd spent so much time living amongst humans, 
whereas most of the werewolves lived apart from society.  I think this 
is what made his position difficult and incredibly stressful.


CathyD now: 

" 'I am not complaining; it is necessary work and who can do it better than I?  However, it has been difficult gaining their trust.  I bear the unmistakeable signs of having tried to live among wizards, you see, whereas they have shunned normal society and live on the margins, stealing - and sometimes killing - to eat.' "  Then later he says " 'I cannot pretend that my particular brand of reasoned argument is making much headway against Greyback's insistence that we werewolves deserve blood, and we ought to revenge ourselves on normal people.' "  (HBP pg 313,314 Can Ed)  I think Lupin, as spy, is trying to convice the werewolves that he has finally seen the evil of his ways - living with wizards - and has finally reformed and come back home where he belongs.  

Responding to Lynn and Inge.  Yes, it would only take a word from Snape to blow Lupin's cover.  Except you're forgetting,  they are both in the Order of the Phoenix.  And Dumbledore trusts Snape, for a very good reason.  And Snape was keeping Wormtail away from LV, wasn't he?  Spinner's End was the perfect hiding place for Wormtail, for both sides.  Snape could keep an eye on him for LV and for Dumbledore at the same time.  LV doesn't want Wormtail repaying his debt to Harry Potter, after all, and Dumbledore doesn't want Wormtail telling tales. 

I do think Lupin as a spy among werewolves is definitely in the past, as he was fighting against the DE's and Greyback at Hogwarts the night of DD's death.  Kinda blew his cover a bit there, didn't he?  But it ovbiously wasn't going well anyway, so perhaps DD pulled him out for his own protection.



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