Some thoughts on ESE!Lupin in HBP

[lucianam73]

No: HPFGUIDX 147425

lucianam:

I've been looking for ESE!Lupin threads concerning HBP (I've asked
people to link me, even, in my message
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/147301
but I haven't got replies so I guess there aren't many.
(I found threads concerning Lupin/Tonks and Tonks's Patronus, though).

1. Lupin/Tonks:

I think Tonks/Lupin is a double bluff: we suspect something's not
right, we find out it's allright, but in fact it is NOT allright
because Lupin is very wicked and he's got Tonks on Amortentia. Of
course I know this is neither a new theory, nor something most list
members seem to agree with, but here are some thoughts anyway.

It's odd that Tonks never is around when Lupin visits the Weasleys.
Did he tell her not to come, so people would definitely NOT suspect
him as the person who was slipping her Amortentia? BTW I find it
incredible that none of the characters thought of that possibility
(Tonks being under the effect of a love potion).

And actually Lupin preventing Tonks from attending both Harry's
birthday and Christmas at the burrow could mean he doesn't want people
to notice her behavior around him. Hermione is `the cleverest witch
her age', after all. Wouldn't she notice Tonks was under Amortentia's
effects if she was drooling all over Lupin's feet at The Burrow?

2. Ollivander

Lupin is supposed to be clever, sensitive, well-mannered kind of guy.
I find it extremely Out of Character behavior that he chose to spoil
everybody's fun at Harry's birthday.  

`To Mrs.Weasley's displeasure, Harry's sixteenth birthday celebrations
were marred by grisly tidings brought to the party by Remus Lupin,
'

What possessed him to start talking about Dementors attacks and
Karkaroff's and Regulus's murders? I tell you, I'm not British and
therefore cannot swear by British manners but unless I had the
completely wrong idea so far, that's not what I'd call appropriate
conversation for a party.

What I think Lupin's doing is set a trap for the other people in the
party, in which they promptly fall, following his lead and talking
about the latest Death-Eater related incidents. I can't really see why
Voldemort would be interested in info about the ice-cream man, but
Ollivander is another story altogether. Suppose Ollivander packed his
bags and ran for it as soon as he saw the news of Voldemort's return
in the Daily Prophet. Voldemort probably wants to know if the Order of
the Phoenix knows where Ollivander is, and that is the information
Lupin was trying to get.


3. The Montgomery kid:

Rumours say Greyback was the werewolf who attacked the 5-year-old
Montgomery boy, but that's not what Tonks seem to think, and that has
goes either for Genuinely in love!Tonks and for Amortentia!Tonks.

`I've heard rumours
 people getting hurt
'
`Yeah, I know, it's all been in the papers,' said Harry. `That little
kid trying to kill his_'
`The Prophet's often behind the times,' said Tonks,


Tonks's words imply that while Harry was thinking about the boy who
was put under Imperius, she was thinking about something (people
getting hurt) that had not made it to the Daily Prophet yet. Next
chapter, we hear about the Montgomery boy who was attacked by a
werewolf and died in St.Mungus. If that was what Tonks was worried
about, regardless of ESE!Lupin being the werewolf who did it or not,
she believed he was capable of attacking a five-year-old boy. 

4. The Dark Mark

I've posted a message on this
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/147301 
Is it too much of a coincidence that we only have Lupin's word on
Gibbon being the one who cast the Dark Mark.

And that's all I can think of for now. Of course, everything I pointed
above could have a perfectly innocent explanation, but if JKR pulls
ESE!Lupin in the end, well, it does add credibility to the plot.

Currently interested in ESE!Lupin, obviously,
Lucianam