[HPforGrownups] Re: Spies, Lies and Self fullfilling prophecies

[Karen]

No: HPFGUIDX 146312

pippin:

Both Snape and Sirius thought that Lupin was aiding the Death Eaters.
We never learn how this suspicion came about, but I don't think it's
safe to  dismiss it, especially since JKR has gone about showing us
how unlikely the implied reasons really are.

kchuplis:

OK, here is where I get confused....where do Snape and Sirius say they
suspected Lupin of aiding Death Eaters?


pippin:

Furthermore, Snape refers to him as 'vermin' and treats him
very shabbily, evidently with Voldemort's permission. It's strange
that a fanatically ambitious Death Eater would put up with that,
even stranger that he would be content to live twelve years as a rat,
when he could have been scheming to bring his master back to power.

It sounds like Peter and Wormtail the Spy are two different people,
doesn't it?

kchuplis:

Well, it could be spun that way, but I feel like I am in that Peanuts
cartoon where they are looking at clouds and Linus expounds on how he sees
shadows of complex historic icons and events but Charlie Brown says "I see a
horsie and a bunny". Well......I see a horsey and a bunny.  Wormtail/Peter
just does whatever butters his bread. I don't think he's fanatical about
being a Death Eater, he's just fanatical about staying on the side with what
he sees as the most power in the end (and also while a rat, just, well,
hiding). He's scared of everything. Especially anything that could kill him.
He's had a buttload of luck in that he *hasn't* been killed. Killing a
streetful of Muggles wouldn't really be that hard. It wasn't elegant or neat
in any manner. I think the by-product of Sirius being arrested for it was
not a "plan" but just fortunate for Wormtail.







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