Snape - a werewolf bigot?? Was: Say it isn't so Lupin!!!

[lizzyben04]

No: HPFGUIDX 170164

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Dana" <ida3 at ...> wrote:
>
> lizzyben04: 
> First, he usually refers to Voldemort by
> > name - and he's the only person who does this in the WW, besides DD
> > & Harry. And he does it casually, w/o anxiety - while most other
> > people have to force themselves to even form the word. How did Lupin
> > get on such familiar terms? It's an anomoly that I've never seen
> > explained in the text. Maybe he's just that brave, but that doesn't
> > seem in line w/Lupin's personality. I almost get the impression that
> > he *knows* Voldemort in some capacity.
> 
> Dana:
> Sirius does that too. I do not see why this would make Lupin 
> suspisious. The DEs refer to LV as the Dark Lord and so does Snape 
> but not Lupin. 

lizzyben:
It could be that he's just emulating Dumbledore, I admit. Still,
there's something odd in how Lupin refers to both Voldemort & the
Dementors - a certain casualness, almost like he's too familiar with
both. But that's just a hunch, so I admit there's no proof of that.

> lizzyben04:
> > Second, in OOTP, Lupin says that Regulas Black was killed days after
> > leaving the Death Eaters. How does he know this? Even Sirius, his
> > brother, only has some vague idea that Regulas tried to leave at
> > some point & was killed by somebody. Lupin knows exactly when
> > Regulas left, and exactly when he was killed. I don't know how Lupin
> > could know when Regulas left the Death Eaters - unless he was in
> > contact w/the Death Eaters as well. These things always made me
> > wonder about him, though there might be a perfectly reasonable
> > explanation.
> 
> Dana:
> 
> Lupin never says anything about Regulus in OotP. He states in HBP 
> that as far as he can remember Sirius's brother did not last long 
> with the DEs. That is all that he states. Regulus died a year before 
> the Potters did so there would have been numerous ways to find out he 
> died. 

lizzyben:
OK, I found the quote in canon - it is from HBP, page 106:

""And they've found Igor Karkaroff's body in a shack up north. The
Dark Mark had been set over it - well, frankly, I'm surprised he
stayed alive for even a year after deserting the Death Eaters;
Sirius's brother, Regulus, only managed a few days as far as I can
remember."

So, Lupin knows that Regulus left the DE, and he also knows that
Regulus only lived a few days thereafter. My question is, how does he
know this? How would he know when Regulus left the DE unless he was in
direct contact w/either Regulus or the Death Eaters? Sirius himself
only seems to have a vague idea, but Lupin knows the specifics. Why?
Based on how Lupin says this, it doesn't sound like he learned about
this from a tapestry or something. He says "as far as I can remember",
which means that he's recalling something he experienced in the past.
Lupin implies that he first knew that Regulus had left, and then
learned about Regulus's death a few days later. And
this is one of the ONLY places that we hear Lupin referring to his
past. He's remembering something that happened in 1979, during those
missing, unexplained 12 years. So where was he that he would learn
this information? On it's own, it's not that suspicious, but combined
w/Lupin's evasiveness about his past, and the lack of any other
information about his adult life, it's certainly suggestive. Wherever
Lupin was in 1979, he was in a position to know exactly when Regulus
left the Death Eaters.