Lupin and The Marauders (was:Re: Remus Lupin: Good man doing nothing)

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 149368

> Marianne:
> I like the idea.  I can just see the Snape/Sirius dynamic.  Sirius, 
> thinking he'll let Snape in on how to get past the Willow, tells 
> Snape what to do, while being sure that Snape will have the pants 
> scared off him once he sees/hears Werewolf!Remus.  At the same time, 
> Snape, smugly thinking that he knows Remus is a werewolf and all he 
> needs to prove it and bring Remus down is photographic proof, takes 
> Sirius's Willow instructions at face value and enters the tunnel 
> with a camera in his hands. Or not.

Pippin:
The trouble with the accusation/fear of cowardice explanation is that 
neither side seems to have arranged for an audience. Surely Sirius
would have wanted everyone to see Snape running in terror from 
the willow? Surely Snape would have wanted everyone to see for
themselves what Lupin was? A picture of a werewolf wouldn't prove
anything, unless Snape was also in the frame. But then someone else
would have to be taking the pictures.

Marianne:
> The questions remaining for me remain: What spurred Sirius to reveal 
> how to get past the Willow to Snape.  And, if Snape really suspected 
> Remus to be a werewolf, why he was not better prepared to deal with 
> the potential lethal consequences.  OTOH, if Snape had no idea Remus 
> was a werewolf, why go past the Willow at all?  

Pippin:
The most obvious explanation, to me, anyway, is that Snape didn't
enter the willow of free will. JKR has shown us any number of ways
a person can be magicked into going somewhere they didn't intend:
recklessness draughts, confundus charms, the Imperius curse, 
even love potions. Harry got Ron to go to Slughorn's office by
telling him Romilda would be there.

Of course that makes the Prank more obviously a crime. Sirius
had no reason to go that far. But Lupin did.

Put yourself in his place for a minute. Lupin must not only fear that
his own secret will be discovered, but the animagi outings as well.
Sirius and James think they can get away with anything and they
aren't going to be happy giving  up something that good just 
because Snape will be watching the willow from now on.   

When they're caught Lupin will not only lose his only
hope for a decent life, he'll also be separated from the only friends 
he's ever had and the only thing that makes his transformations 
bearable. Being accused of murder, should it come to that, would
hardly be worse than what was in  store for him already. 

It beats me why some of the people who are most anxious to see Harry
whomp the butts  of everyone who ever made his life a misery  are equally 
certain that JKR has made Lupin far too noble to do any such thing. 

Pippin