Lupin as spy? (was Re: Why would Sirius need to be killed to keep a secret?)

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 163325

> lone_white_werewolf:
> Interesting theory, what actions of Lupin's lead you to believe
> he could be a spy?
>

Pippin:
He is concealing something about his past. He claims 
that he's been shunned all his adult life and never had paid
work, but his case says, "Professor R J Lupin" in peeling letters.

He scolds Harry for not turning in the Marauders Map,
but he doesn't turn it in himself. He doesn't tell anyone about
the unguarded secret passage in the One-eyed Witch. He is
strangely incurious about how Harry got the map, though he
knows that Sirius has been inside the school.

His excuse for not telling anyone about Sirius's animagus 
ability sounds lamer the more you think about it. He chides Harry 
for gambling James and Lily's sacrifice for a bag of magic tricks, but
he gambles it himself for job security. That's not what James
and Lily died for.

He claims not to be an expert about fighting Dementors, but
meanwhile he must be teaching NEWT DADA -- if he's not an
expert, who is? He ends the anti-dementor lessons
before Harry has been shown able to produce a patronus
under an actual threat.

His behavior the night of the Shrieking Shack is simply
bizarre. He leaves the map activated on his desk, runs right 
past the valuable and useful invisibility cloak, and rushes on in
a tearing haste to reach Peter. You'd think he'd want an
explanation from him right away,  but he settles down to a long
and interesting chat about his own past history which even
Sirius can't see the point of. He doesn't demand that Ron
produce Peter until after Snape comes out of hiding and has been 
dealt with.

Then Lupin demands that Ron hand over the rat  -- but he doesn't 
ever insist that Ron let him deal with his injuries. Instead he lets 
Ron linger in obvious pain and ignores Snape's injuries altogether 
-- until it is time to leave the shack.

But the most important thing is that Lupin tries  to kill Pettigrew.
He stands side-by-side with Sirius, whose motive is clearly revenge,
and even though Sirius has already said that he'd be willing to take
Peter up to the castle, Lupin rolls up his sleeves, subtly egging 
Sirius on.  His intended last words to Peter, IIRC, are
 "You should have known, Peter. If Voldemort didn't kill
you, we would." 

Then in HBP, he claims to oppose killing for revenge. But it
appears that as usual, his scruples are one thing and his behavior
is another. He's always full of remorse about what could have
happened, but somehow he never seems to regret anything
he's actually *done*. He's haunted by the fear that he might
have injured someone in his marauder days, but he still calls
them the happiest times of his life.


He decides it's time to leave the shack just when his transformation 
will allow Pettigrew to escape interrogation by Dumbledore. We
will learn in HPB that werewolves can position themselves to
ambush their victims, which would be difficult if they don't
know exactly when they're going to transform. Other internal
evidence suggests that werewolves transform when the lunar
chart says they will, not when the moon emerges from a cloud.

In OOP, he saves Harry from charging through the Veil, but he
slacks his grip when Harry goes after Bella, who could kill or
torture Harry into insanity with a word. Is that the action of 
someone trying to protect Harry, or of someone trying to give
Voldemort one last chance to get the prophecy?

In HBP, he says he hasn't written Harry because he's been out on a
secret mission to the werewolves, but he was around during the
summer, so why didn't he write to Harry  at the Dursleys?

Especially after he hinted he'd be watching and told Harry to 
keep in touch.  

Pippin
who is still canonless and apologizes for any inaccuracies in this
post