A bit of evil Lupin

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No: HPFGUIDX 165328

> Pippin:
> How can "Lupin was suspected because he was the spy" 
> be a more complex interpretation than "Lupin was suspected 
> because Pettigrew sowed mistrust among the Marauders."
> There is no canon of Pettigrew doing that successfully, in 
> fact his attempts to divide Lupin and Sirius in the shack
> are pitiful.

Alla:

Lupin was suspected because he was a spy is not in my view a 
straightforward interpretation, because by that token Sirius should 
have been a spy as well. I do not remember any support for the idea 
that there was more reason to suspect Lupin than Sirius.

And Peter did not sow distrust against Marauders? Peter, who fooled 
everybody? Peter, who framed Sirius so brilliantly? I disagree. 

Of course he cannot divide Lupin and Sirius in Shack - because they 
know who he is now, he is uncovered, so why the traitor responsible 
for the death of their friends should be able to divide them?

My point is that he was able to do so while disguised.

 
> Pippin:
> Straightforward is one thing and superficial is another :) If  a 
> "straightforward" theory can only be maintained by arbitrarily 
> disregarding canon  then I'd say its claim to be straightforward 
> is questionable.

Alla:

No, I am not disregarding any canon, I am just interpreting it 
differently than you do. I believe that your interpretation is much 
more complex than mine, that is all, that is does not preclude you 
from being right obviously, but neither is I am going to think of 
ESE!Lupin other than complex interpretation.



Pippin:
<SNIP>
> Similarly, the missing rope shadow from the priori incantatem 
> should prove that Wormtail was not using Voldemort's
> wand when Cedric was killed and the blood on Dumbledore's face 
should
> prove that he didn't die on the tower. These clues are absolutely
> unambiguous, IMO -- the only way to refute them is to pretend that 
JKR 
> doesn't care about logic or that they're not what she meant to 
write.

Alla:

Didn't JKR say that Wormtail was in fact using Voldemort's wand? ( 
Don't remember for sure)

And of course the problem is that we do not know that she meant to 
write what you are interpreting those clues to be. And we had been 
through blood on DD's face, so I will just say that it is so not 
unambiguous for me :)

JMO,

Alla, who is boldly betting that Lupin is not evil, had not been 
evil, will not be evil, but who of course has her crow cooked and in 
the freeser.