[HPforGrownups] Re: Say it isn't so Lupin!!!

[Jordan Abel]

No: HPFGUIDX 170046

> wynnleaf:
> This comment concerns me because among the few people that espouse the
> ESE!Lupin, or at least Traitor!Lupin theories, I don't know *anyone*
> who believes Lupin's being a werewolf is what makes him suspicious.

Snape. I know you meant real people rather than characters, but...  
that's part of the "meat" behind this argument against ESE!Lupin: If  
Lupin is ESE, Snape is right for being an anti-werewolf bigot, and  
that's not a message that JKR would be putting in the books.

> So this leaves the stranger
> with the dragon's egg a complete mystery.

Or we have SmarterThanHeSounds!Hagrid, meaning that these details  
were fabricated by Hagrid (or by Dumbledore for Hagrid to tell) for  
Harry's benefit, that he knew it was Quirrel all along, as did  
Dumbledore, etc.

I seem to recall that this was a fairly popular theory in the wake of  
GOF and OOTP, fitting together with Manipulative!Dumbledore.

> wynnleaf:
> And then there's the problem of when Lupin
> transformed at a time when the moon was already up and simply came out
> from a cloud.

My problem with this is that there is _no_ mechanism in canon by  
which this could happen and be in any way under Lupin's control. If  
werewolves could control their own transformation, that would change  
_everything_. If the moon generally has to be visible to trigger it,  
why not just have him sleep peacefully in a room with no windows  
during his time at Hogwarts?

This almost _has_ to be a simple plot hole, because there's no  
mechanism by which it can be suspicious that we don't already know  
about. And she's sloppy enough with full moons anyway that it's  
believable.

--Random832