Say it isn't so Lupin!!!

[Dana]

No: HPFGUIDX 169993

TKJ:
> Ok so there have been rumblings that someone that Harry thinks is 
> an ally will turn on him. Lupin's name came up. I thought about 
> this and see that it could happen. Here's my argument:
 
Dana:
I'm not sure why there is a need for yet another person betraying 
Harry in DH. HBP is the first half of two and someone already turned 
out to be a traitor there (as it stands now). DH will be about 
revealations of the truth, there is no need for yet another traitor 
in DH to make the story go forward. JMHO
 
 
TKJ:
> LV find out that he is undercover amongst the Werewolves and goes 
> to him. Tells him that even if he is defeated that the WW will 
> never accept Werewolves among them. Especially, now with DD gone 
> what hope does he have? LV explains to him that if he helps he 
> promises to let the werewolves be and not have to live in hiding. 
 
Dana:
Harry and Tonks will be his hope. Lupin resents the fact that he is 
a werewolf himself and that it made him a ready-made spy. Lupin does 
not live in hiding he justs considers himself to dangerous to let 
people come to close to him. That will not change just because LV 
would promise him to let the werewolves be. The werewolves side with 
LV not for acceptance but to be able to get victims without someone 
stopping them. Lupin never had the urge to want to be like that. He 
never wanted to be responsible for turning another person into 
something he doesn't want to be himself.
The better life he wants for the werewolves has nothing to do with 
the werewolf part of their being but with the human part. LV is not 
offering them recognition as humans but just that they can be 
werewolves all they like. That is not an ambition Lupin has of 
wanting to be. He wants acceptance that he is a human with a 
problem, not a werewolf that needs to be able to pick his victims 
freely. LV has nothing to offer what Lupin truly wants, not for 
himself and not for the werewolves. 
 
TKJ:
> Lupin thinks about it and doesn't want to help him but is scared by
> the idea of what is going to happen to him when he isn't needed by 
> the Order anymore and the WW is happily free of LV and how he will 
> most likely be treated badly and turns on the Order and helps LV.
 
Dana:
Lupin was never scared of what is going to happen to him, he was 
always prepared to not be accepted for what he was. The only thing 
he was scared of is that his friends would not accept him as a 
friend if they found out his secret but no one ever did, not even 
right after DD's death as they encourage him to show his feelings 
for Tonks. Lupin wants to be liked by his friends and why he cuts 
them more slack then he ought too but that is a long way from 
betraying his friends because he is scared of what the WW thinks of 
him. 

LV is not able to give him the acceptance Lupin wants because 
joining up with LV will not take away the bigotry or make it able 
for Lupin to be accepted as a Wizard. LV will just be able to 
provide easy accessible meat and that is not what drives Lupin. It 
is not Lupin's werewolf side that graves for acceptance but his 
human side and the werewolves turning to LV will just make the WW 
fear the werewolves even more because they will be living up to the 
fear people have for them. I think people should cut Lupin some 
slack because he never gave in to the struggle he endured living 
among the WW population while it would have been easier to just join 
the werewolves and live among them. Also the werewolves do not trust 
Lupin either because he has been living among wizards. 
 
The change for werewolves will not come from an outside source and 
LV can not provide that for Lupin either. The only way werewolves 
can live among the WW population is if they would want to live among 
them as fellow humans and not prey on them. The more werewolves 
acknowledge that they are humans for the most part and just 
werewolves once a month, the more they would be able to be part of 
society but as long as they want to be werewolves and deny their 
human identity of their being then they will never be able to get 
closer to acceptance. They will just live up to the fear people have 
for them. Change does not happen from the outside but from the 
inside. It is not the WW that has to accept werewolves but 
werewolves wanting to be part of society, if they do not then 
acceptance from the other side does not matter. The same goes for 
Remus, he has to accept that people who care for him to accept him 
for WHO he is and not reject him for WHAT he is. Some people will 
but they are not the people you want to as your friend anyway and 
that will never change not even if the WW publicly acknowledges 
werewolves. 

Also I very much doubt that JKR, who is against bigotry, will make 
the person, she gave a problem that would cause him to endure a lot 
of such bigotry, live up to that bigotry by making him a traitor. 
Lupin is a much stronger person then people give him credit for and 
he is definitely not a person that only thinks of himself even if it 
seems that way because he was scared to lose DD's trust by revealing 
the truth of what the marauders did when they were young. Sure it 
was a mistake but that does not mean he will be going to run to LV 
because he is to scared to face the upcoming war as a person and is 
to scared of what might happen to him personally. It was only DD's 
trust he did not want to lose. 

JMHO

Dana