Lupin and Legilimency: Why Wait to Reveal?

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 129818

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214" 
<dumbledore11214 at y...> wrote:

> If Lupin is indeed a Legilimenc and I am finally convinced that it 
> is likely, I think it is possible that he was one of the 
> Dumbledore's spies during those twelve years we know nothing about.
> 
> It is also a possibility, IMO, that he started spying during 
> Voldemort's first rise and one of the reasons why James and Sirius 
> suspected him. Who knows, maybe they spotted him in the company of 
> suspected DE or something.
> 
> I do think that we will discover that Snape was not the only spy.

Jen: I'm so curious find out why James & Sirius suspected Lupin.

One good theory Entropy put forth was that Lupin was of Eastern 
European descent and spent the first war in that area recruiting. 
(There was more to her theory involving Prague and some symbolism 
there, but it escapes me now). If Lupin was living away from his 
friends at the time, it would be easier to suspect him than Peter. 
Because there Peter is, sitting between James and Lily in that Order 
photo, looking like a dear friend and loyal Order member. Creepy. 

And Lupin was nowhere to be seen in that photo, even though he was 
clearly one of the Old Crowd according to Dumbledore. I think you're 
right that he must have been a spy during the first war. And as the 
sphinx tells us in GOF: "First think of the person who lives in 
disguise, who deals in secrets and tells naught lies." If Lupin was 
a spy, he was undoubtedly doing strange things that mystified his 
friends.

Perhaps Lupin was also working undercover as a professor at the 
time, in a wizard school where being a werewolf was overlooked. It 
would explain all of Lupin's knowledge of DADA, dark creatures and 
the Professor R.J. Lupin satchel.

Such intrigue! I hope Lupin isn't like Dudley in the end, a 'what 
you see is what you get' character and we hear no more backstory.

Jen