a Lupin Rant

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 173519


> 
> sherry now:
> I was disgusted with Lupin in the scene of the argument with Harry.  
<snip>
Until the scene at shell Cottage, where he had
> obviously perhaps grown up a little and was finally doing the right
thing. We didn't see his death, and I'm confident he died bravely, but
I did not like him in the beginning of the book.
> 


Pippin:
I do have to thank JKR for making Lupin a credible red herring and
allowing Harry to recognize that he did indeed have greater failings
than cutting his friends too much slack. They were all evident in the
earlier books, though Harry did not notice them. 

We need not ask now why Sirius would have suspected him as the spy,
or Snape would have thought he was in on the prank or why Lupin would
have killed Pettigrew without a visible qualm. None of that would have
been out of character for the callous, cowardly, irresponsible Lupin
of DH. 

I must suppose he escaped ESE!ness only because Voldemort undervalued
werewolves. 

Anyway, just pass that crow over here. <g>

I used to say that ESE!Lupin was a theory about the plot, not the
character, and actually as a theory about the plot it was pretty much
right on. Harry *did* struggle with betrayal in Book Seven, an ESE!
was revealed, and it was by golly the one who confessed on page to 
the death  of Sirius Black ("It is my fault Sirius is dead.")

It never occurred to me that Dumbledore could have been Grindelwald's
 ESE! of course. Did anybody guess that?

Pippin