NotKillingWormtail/SnapeAtXmas/Draco/Virgin/HBPbook/repliesToPostsInLiteratur

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 162877


> Zanooda wrote in
> <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/162731>:
> 
> << 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? >>
> 
> Some listies think that murder gets a long sentence in Azkaban even
> without using an Unforgiveable. Pippin thinks ESE!Lupin takes that
> risk to silence the one witness against him.

Pippin:
Zanooda asked why Peter didn't speak up, if that was the case. I
think he tried to, once he realized that it was Lupin, not Sirius, who
must have betrayed his identity as the secret keeper. (ESE!Lupin
theory assumes that Peter was not the spy and did not voluntarily
reveal himself to Voldemort.) But at first Peter thought he could 
let Sirius be blamed for everything so as not to  admit his own 
guilt for yielding to  Voldemort's threats and betraying the secret. 

IMO, by the time Peter realized that Sirius was innocent, Sirius was 
sick of his lies and in no mood to listen to anything Peter had to say. 
He roared Peter into silence.  I think after that Lupin used silencing 
spells and legilimency to make sure Peter only said what Lupin 
wanted him to say.

You can find the original version of ESE!Lupin at post 39362
A summary of the theory in its current state is at 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/146764?var=1&l=1


Pippin:
> << But I'd say that JKR introduces what seem to be stock characters
> and situations, then does something unexpected with them, exposing in
> the process how much we prefer relying on convention to keeping an
> open mind. >>

Catlady:
> Examples, other than ESE!Lupin?

Pippin:
Snape, in PS/SS, of course. But the WW itself seems first to be an
idealized haven, like Oz or Narnia, where the good guys are nobler than
good people are in the real world. As JKR says, that doesn't stand up.
Harry hasn't landed in a sort of wonderland, but in a place where he's
happier because he has friends. 

Pippin