Lupin is Ever So Evil, Part One -- The Prank (LONG)

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No: HPFGUIDX 130166

Neri:
. Still, I find it very difficult to  imagine super-evil Remus who at
the age of 16 is capable of cold-blood  murder, knows how to 
use the Imperious or something equivalent, and manages to hide 
it all from both DD and his friends, *but* can't even  device a 
simple and efficient plan to get rid of Severus, and instead  
invents this complex plot that involves himself and his friends 
and naturally fails, not to mention that it could have easily failed 
much worse than it did. Remus could have been an evil mastermind 
like Tom, or he could have been a rather stupid and coward kid, 
but I can't see him being *both*.


Pippin:
LOL! Don't blame me for the dualities in Lupin's character!  I'm
not the one who wrote that Lupin was filled with self-disgust
over betraying Dumbledore's trust and twenty pages later had him 
ready to commit cold blooded murder. (Odd that Lupin seems to
have so little faith in wizarding justice, seeing as how the Chief 
Warlock of the Wizengamot at the time was none other than 
Dumbledore himself. )


How JKR is going to resolve the contradictions in Lupin I can't
say. But in my scenario, his evil springs from desperation.
Imagine yourself in sixteen year old Lupin's shoes for a moment.
For almost as long as you can remember, you have suffered
with a horrible disease that subjects you to an excruciatingly
painful transformation which turns you into a beast. You will
howl and scream for hours as you  claw and bite your own flesh. 
Your one respite from this condition, the only thing that you've
ever found that could make it bearable,  is about to be taken 
away from you by a geeky little oddball. 

There's no help for you...your  friends think it is a big joke and 
have been coming up with ridiculous scenarios all month to
evade Snape's vigilance and keep up the visits to Hogsmeade.

If you go to the authorities you'll have to admit that you
and your friends have been breaking laws and violating trust 
right and left --

Either way, you and your friends are going to expelled, you'll be
*separated* (this would have been the worst to me at 16)
Dumbledore, to whom you owe everything, will be disgraced, 
you'll be living proof that everything they say about 
werewolves being untrustworthy is true...

The days are ticking away, it's almost full moon again...you
don't know what you're going to do...

And then Padfoot says, "Serve him right if he did find his way
in!" And the whole plan leaps into your head at once. Maybe
you know how to do the confundus curse (like many sickly
children, you have a lot of time to read) or maybe somebody
is working on a hotheadedness draught for NEWT potions, and
a few drops find their way into Snape's evening pumpkin juice.

Of course it's desperate and foolish and too clever by half, 
but so was going into Hogsmeade and encouraging  his 
friends to become animagi. 


Pippin