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

[spotsgal]

No: HPFGUIDX 148290

> 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.

Christina:

Well your answer is right in your question - Lupin is spying on the
*werewolves*, not on Voldemort.  He presumably doesn't have any
contact with him.  What reason does Fenrir Greyback have for telling
Voldemort the names of his entire werewolf pack?  What reason does
Peter have for informing Voldemort of the names of people in the
Order?  A completely plausable story for Lupin to give Greyback would
be to say that after Sirius's death, he became disillusioned with the
"good" side.  Think of all that Lupin has lost during the two wars - I
don't think it would be difficult for him to spin a story of "Sirius's
death was the last straw" to get in Fenrir's good graces.  Even if
Fenrir discussed Lupin with Voldemort (and I see no reason why he
would), Voldemort and Peter have no proof that Lupin is *still* in the
Order.  Peter only knows that Lupin was a good guy back in the first
war, and up through the events of PoA.  Moreover, Peter's knowledge is
obsolete, because we know that Fenrir bit Lupin (a planned attack on a
boy whose name he knew) and probably knew his loyalties from back in
the first war anyway.  Some such remorse story must have been spun to
get Lupin in the werewolf pack in the first place.

The whole concept of spying in the HP Universe (and in general,
really) rests on "change of heart" scenarios.  Regardless of which
side Snape is really on, he "spun a tale of deepest remorse" when he
turned to Dumbledore.  I doubt Peter grew up a vile child who dreamed
of one day helping to murder his best friend - he had a change of
heart also, and switched his loyalties.  It doesn't matter if Lupin's
loyalties from the first war are common knowledge, because it's
completely plausable that he has since had a change of heart.  It is
Lupin's enthusiastic participation in the battle at the end of HBP
that outs him to the werewolves, not his previous participation in the
Order.

Christina