Lupin's Spying, WAS: Snape, Hagrid, and Sirius Black
horridporrid03
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Fri Feb 17 00:06:28 UTC 2006
No: HPFGUIDX 148265
> >>Sydney:
> Snipping the rest of Carol's post because this just jumped out at
> me... how can Lupin be spying on the werewolves? Surely Peter's told
> Voldemort that he's a member of the Order? And even if we hold our
> noses and guess that he DIDN'T, why would Dumbeldore send him on a
> spying gig when his cover would have been pre-blown?
> Fernir Greyback is both a werewolf and a DE, and I have a hard time
> picturing him refraining from ripping Lupin's throat out if he knows
> that he's a spy for the Order. Maybe Lupin is pretending to be a
> double-agent like Snape but I don't really see how he could pull
> that off.
Betsy Hp:
This is totally the story of Lupin!! He is confusing from beginning
to end. First he comes across as gay and madly in love with Sirius
(how else to explain his willingness to let Sirius kill Harry), and
then suddenly he's shacking up with Sirius's cousin. And being such a
killer lover she's heart-broken after their, what, week-long? affair.
Then he's supposed to be the "sensitive" Marauder, the most grown-up,
etc., etc., and yet here's Harry suffering like crazy, and not word
one from Lupin. Has Harry *ever* received a letter from that man?
And he was cold as ice when it came time to kill Peter. Just
a "sorry, Peter, but you can't possibly be surprised, and shall it be
on three, Sirius?" like killing's his life work.
There's all this talk that Snape is this man of mystery and once the
mystery's solved, blah, blah, blah. But we know *tons* about Snape
when we compare him to Lupin. Most of the stuff people claim to be
true about Lupin is totally based on assumption and fanon.
Not that I'm going for ESE!Lupin. I'm not going for *anything* with
Lupin, because he's just so darn hard to get a read on. And this
impossible to believe spying job is only part of it. I can't tell if
he's JKR's ace in the hole, or just an afterthought.
Betsy Hp
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