Maligning Lupin

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 150562

Pippin wrote:
<big snip>  But you have to work it out. Canon does not make it
> obvious, though there's no accounting for the moon's appearance 
> (short of poetic license or error) otherwise. Harry does not seem to
> know it, and so he has not  asked himself why it was that
> Lupin's transformation came just at the time when it would allow
> Pettigrew to escape. He's sure it was an accident. But it needn't
> have been. <snip again>

Carol responds:
Poetic license, maybe, and the fact that Lupin has been taking his
potion for the rest of the week but forgets it at the worst possible
time. But we don't need to resort to Lupin's iniquity to explain the
situation. There's the DADA curse, simultaneously working to expose
Lupin and to aid Voldemort by returning his servant Wormtail to him.
IMO, the DADA curse explains everything--why Lupin kept the map rather
than turning it in to DD and confessing all his secrets, why Lupin
happened to be looking at the map just as Sirius Black/Padfoot was
dragging Ron (with Pettigrew in his pocket) into the tunnel, why Lupin
left the map open for Snape to see, why Lupin rushed out without his
potion on a full-moon night, why Snape arrived two minutes too late to
give it to him, why Lupin transformed when he did, allowing Pettigrew
to escape and restore LV to "human" form. Coincidence? Not if LV's
will in the form of the DADA curse is at work.
 
> Pippin:
> But the whole thing about Snape is whether people can do better with
> second chances, and whether Dumbledore was wise to give him
> one. <snip>

Carol:
Exactly.

Pippin:
> Harry  can't really understand that Snape is innocent and redeemed,
(if that's the case) unless some other of Voldemort's servants is
shown to have more responsibility for the death of Sirius and the
catastrophe on the tower than Snape did. He can't forgive Snape for
being so bitter (if he does) until he understand that there's more
than a schoolboy grudge behind it. <snip>

Carol:
Setting aside the tower incident, which doesn't require ESE!Lupin for
DDM!Snape to have made the only possible choice (the lesser of two
evils, etc.), I agree with you that Harry has shifted the blame for
Sirius Black's death onto Snape. (IMO, it's because he can't face his
own role in bringing Black to the MoM and/or Black's own arrogant
recklessness as he fought Bellatrix too near the Veil.) But the
servant of Voldemort primarily responsible for Black's death is known
to Harry. He saw her murder his godfather. He just prefers to blame
Snape--as he himself seems to know but not fully acknowledge. (I can
find the quotes if needed.)

Carol, agreeing with Pippin that there's more to DDM!Snape than a
schoolboy grudge but not that Lupin is ESE! (Ever So Weak, maybe)