Wrong-headed compassion (was Re: Harry Draco and bathroom)

[pippin_999]

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> zanooda:

> I'm also not surprised that Sirius doesn't understand this or maybe 
> understands but doesn't care, he is after all not in his right mind. 
> But it really surprises me that more level-headed people like Lupin 
> or Hermione go along with Sirius without even trying to convince him 
> that PP is his only hope to go free. 
> 
> I've also always wondered how Sirius and Lupin intended to kill PP. 
> Were they about to AK him or what? If they were, that would be the 
> end of Lupin too, wouldn't it?
>

Pippin:
Hermione is still too timid to argue forcefully with adults.

But as for Lupin... he will be in trouble if he gets caught.

But why should he be? Pettigrew is legally dead already, Sirius 
isn't going to be believed no matter what he says, and no one 
will take the word of three thirteen year old wizards.

That scene, more than any other, convinces me that Lupin is the
Book Seven traitor. JKR always gives us a glimpse
of her villains' true nature, though she makes it ever so easy to
overlook it at the time. That scene is Lupin's ferret-bounce, 
IMO, the thing that is going to have the readers of Book Seven 
slapping their foreheads and moaning, "How could we not 
have known???"

There lies the answer also to those who think that if Harry had only
let Pettigrew be slain, Trelawney's second prophecy would not have
come true and Voldemort would never have returned. I'm afraid it
would only have meant that a  different servant of Voldemort would
set out to join him that night.

It is wrong-headed, in Rowling's world, to pretend that some
people are not dangerous. It is equally wrong-headed, IMO, to
think that killings should be stopped only when they are against
your interest.

Pippin