Lupin and Legilimency: Why Wait to Reveal?

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 129831

> Ginger:
> Oh, Jen, I hate to pull the legs out of your cockroach clusters, but 
> Lupin was in the photo in question. 
> 
> US hardcover, ch. 9, p. 174.
> 
> (Moody speaking): ...and that's Emmeline Vance, you've met her, and 
> that there's Lupin, obviously... Benjy Fenwick, he copped it too...
> 
> So he was there.  Sorry.

Jen: Oh dear, that was actually *my* part of the theory too. Ahem, 
well....a revision ;).

So Lupin was in the picture. But you'll notice he's seated quite far 
away from Sirirus, James, Lily and Pettigrew, who are all grouped 
together according to Moody's description. Lupin's back from doing 
whatever mysterious work he was up to in the first war, probably the 
same work that keeps pulling him away from Grimmauld in OOTP. And the 
split is happening, James and Sirius have fingered him as the spy in 
the Order and he's no longer part of their tight little group.

And he may very well be a spy in the Order, doing inexplicable tasks 
that worry the others, but of course they are misreading his actions. 
Which we know is canon for the first war: "Imagine that Voldemort's 
powerful now. You don't know who his supporters are, you don't know 
who's working for him and who isn't; you know he can control people so 
that they do terrible things without being able to stop themselves..." 
(GOF, US, chap. 27, p. 527)
 
> Ginger, who thinks Lupin is a huggybunny.

Jen, who completely agrees.