Spys in the Order - Then and Now

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 158838

> wynnleaf
> In the HP books, if we suspect that JKR might pull 
> another traitor out of the hat in book 7, and we are asking 
> ourselves who that person might be, we have to look at which 
> characters JKR has set up to be the most likely traitor, from a 
> literary point of view.  There will be no new major characters in 
> book 7.  One assumes that if JKR is going to have a traitor (like 
in  all the other books), she'd want the person to be a surprise.  
Yet once an author springs a surprise twist, the surprise is not 
> believable unless the reader can go back through the books and 
find  the threads through which one can see clues and hints of the 
> surprise.  (snip very good reasons for suspecting Lupin)

> wynnleaf -- who suspects Lupin more on literary grounds, but likes 
> him as a character.


Tonks:

Now I know this is going to sound way off the wall, because one can 
have an intutive hunch in RL, but not about a person in a book... 
but I don't think that Lupin is on the side of LV. And now this is 
going to sound even crazier..  my reason is that Tonks is in love 
with him and I think that she is a good judge of people. I think 
Lupin is as we see him. I am not so sure that we will see another 
traitor from the Order in book 7. Did she say we would?

I think the traitor will be the Minister of Magic himself along 
perhaps with some others in the MoM.

Tonks_op