ESE!Lupin condensed and Lupin and Sirius replies

[susanbones2003]

No: HPFGUIDX 147245

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> > 
Pippin:
> 
> I'm afraid when it comes to werewolves, the wizards are no more 
protective
> of life than Voldemort.
> 
> SNIP
> 
> But the werewolves aren't doing so well.
> 
> "I bear the unmistakable signs of having lived among wizards,
> you see, whereas they have shunned normal society, and live on
> the margins,stealing--and sometimes killing--to eat" HBP ch 16
> 
> Lupin goes on to say that Voldemort is offering the werewolves
> a better life, and that it is hard to argue with Fenrir out there. 
> Fenrir, we find, is not starving. He's "a big, rangy man[...]whose
> Death Eater's robes looked uncomfortably tight." -HBP ch 27
> 
> I suppose that young Lupin was kept in as much ignorance over
> the plight of other werewolves as we were. Imagine how it would
> feel to find out the society you were desperately trying to make
> yourself a part of was colluding in the oppression of your own
> people. 

Pippin,
Here's where things stick in my throat. Lupin, it seems, having 
rec'd his bite as a child and then raised to live as normal a life 
as possible, mightn't identify with werewolves as "my people." Yes, 
he's a werewolf, but is his identification more than academic, more 
than explanatory? Here's my question, is it fair in the rules of 
mystery-writing to introduce a less noble-minded reason? You 
mentioned blackmail and would it be fair to build an entire case for 
a spy on just preventing that from coming to light? Does Lupin need 
a huge noble reason to have turned spy? It seems to me, unlike 
Moses, he is a man without a people. Who wants to plight their troth 
with either the racist WW or the massively violent and frightening 
werewolves? See this is where Jo loses me. The "outcasts" she gives 
us are so unbelievable, not just a question of different customs or 
habits of dress. How would werewolves ever be fairly integrated into 
a non-werewolf society? Force them all to take the Wolfsbane 
potiion? Is that even possible? So if Lupin is the spy, I believe it 
has to turn on his weakness of character, the wavering you talked 
about in the previous post with Neri. And the fact that for many 
many years he's been attempting to cover one lie with another. I 
can't see him involved in the werewolf liberation front. I just 
don't know if his wavering character makes for a fair motive and if 
it's up to JKR's standards.
Jen D.