[HPforGrownups] Lupin and Sirius and being single(was:Re: CHAPDISC: HBP 29, The Phoenix Lament

[Bart Lidofsky]

No: HPFGUIDX 164169

From: pippin_999 <foxmoth at qnet.com>
>It's said that those who join extremist groups are often
>skeptical of their ideology at first. They're drawn in by
>the sense of unity and companionship, and adopt the
>values of the group almost imperceptibly. I can see
>that happening to Lupin. He would eventually realize
>what a gulf had opened between him and his old friends.

Bart:
You may have a point there; not necessarily about Lupin, but about Snape. Snape is quite clearly a brilliant and gifted magician (frankly, I suspect that what attracts such high caliber people to Hogwarts is an opportunity to do independent research, without a need to make a profit like F&G, or without a Ministry official looking over your shoulder, much as professors in top muggle Universities often do). Yet, he was also clearly the target of the "popular crowd" when at Hogwarts. There is little doubt that Tommy the "V", seeing a useful minion, had the DE's cultivate his friendship, bringing him into the organization. Given the DDM theory, it could be that turning in the prophecy, and seeing how Tommy was going to riddle the Potters, is what brought him to his senses, and realized what he was doing, causing him to go to Dumbledore and confess what an idiot he had been.

Bart