Lupin's Spying, WAS: Snape, Hagrid, and Sirius Black

[Sydney]

No: HPFGUIDX 148276

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Karen <kchuplis at ...> wrote:
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> On Thursday, February 16, 2006, at 06:06 PM, horridporrid03 wrote:
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> >  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)
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> ??? I have never seen any indication of this whatsoever. Please provide 
> canon.
>

Sydney:

I don't have canon to hand, but I thought JKR was hinting at Lupin
having a thing for Sirius too!  By his 'willingness to let Sirius kill
Harry', I think, like Sister Magpie, that Betsy was referring to Lupin
keeping all the info he had on how Sirius could get into the castle
(the animagus thing and the secret passages) to himself.  Lupin
attributes this to his fear of disappointing Dumbledore by revealing
the Marauder's escapades some 20 years back.  This seemed like a bit
of thin excuse to me.  It's hard to find specific canon for the R/S
thing of course (although the joint christmas present to Harry was
suggestive), but it was a very popular theory before HBP.  I confess I
was a bit disappointed at JKR slamming shut the speculation. 
Although... Tonks was VERY persistent, and, well, we do know how much
Remus hates to DISAPPOINT people... LOL, to me he reads so much like
the closested guy who marries the lovely girl and is the perfect
husband except for there's always something a little.. off.

Anyways, my original question, of how Lupin could be spying if Peter
knows he was in the Order, still stands... it's enough to make one an
ESE!Lupiner!  Not that I am (I don't feel the story going that way at
all), but like so much about Lupin it all seems hunky-dory until you
have a close look.  Maybe the cover story is that Lupin's switched
sides since back in the day, on account of being outed by Snape?

-- Sydney, who uses way too many elipses...