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

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 148388

> -- Sydney, who STILL wants an answer to the spying!Lupin conundrum.

Pippin:
Lupin says writing letters to Harry would be "something of a giveaway", so
apparently he does his spying in disguise, though he can't hide the
fact that he's tried to live among wizards. (HBP 16). 

I think Voldemort knows full well, of course, having turned Lupin a long
time ago, but it's also a possibility that Lupin wasn't spying on the
werewolves during VWI and therefore Pettigrew doesn't know that he's
doing it now. 

Nicolau:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/148323
Now, I see external reasons to exclude several characters. Lupin is a
good example: he is mistrusted by the WW for being a werewolf: if it
turned out that he *should* be mistrusted, this sends the rather
unpleasant message that prejudices often have a point, not a message I
think JKR would like to pass.

Pippin:
The French Revolution spawned the original Reign of Terror. Shall
we conclude that the aristocrats had a point in supposing the peasants
were too savage to be trusted with their freedom?  I don't think JKR
intends to let her readers dodge the question.  A Tale of Two Cities is 
one of her favorite books and it contains some unpleasant
messages about what those who abuse their power can expect
when the tables are turned. Few are interested in returning good
for evil in such a time. 

Dickens's conclusion was that the peasants had learned brutality from
the aristocrats, and we've seen that face of wizarding
society in Umbridge. She's worse than Fenrir in a way --just as 
brutal and far more ambitious. Fenrir takes children one by one.
Umbridge tried to make off with an entire generation!

Pippin