It was LEWWWpin was Re: PettigrEWWW might still be TREWWW

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> Pippin:
> Naah, it's Lupin,IMO, whose profession of feelings for Lily caused
> that outbreak of goosebumps that Jo got when she went to the movies.

Neri:
Ah, but you see, if it was indeed ESE!LEWWWpin who loved Lily, JKR 
wouldn't have mentioned this outbreak of goose bumps at all. This 
would have been too close to the mark for comfort. And it would have 
caused her worse symptoms than goose bumps, too. But since it is 
actually *not* Lupin but PettigrEWWW who loved Lily, it were merely 
goose bumps and she felt secure enough to mention them. 


> Lily's compassion and reckless trust for  Lupin made her reveal the 
> identity of the secret-keeper to him, and Lupin passed the
> information to Voldemort  in return for the promise to spare her
> life. 
> 

Neri:
ESE!Lupin-loved-Lily-and-tried-to-spared-her mainly makes his crimes 
slightly more vile, if this is still possible at all, but otherwise I 
don't see much profit in it, thematically or plot wise. ESE!Lupin 
would be a shattering revelation near the climax of Book 7, right? So 
there won't be time or emotional momentum left for *another* 
shattering reversal. But we have known Wormtail as a traitor for 
three books, so now he's just ripe to do something noble for Harry, 
and then it can be part of Lily's love protection. 

> This way, at least Lily would be spared, and Lupin would be honored 
> above all others, including that thug Fenrir who was the cause of 
all
> Lupin's misery. Yes.

Neri:
You mean, Lupin's revenge on Fenrir for biting him would be being 
higher in the pecking order? That sounds a little... weak.

And speaking of Fenrir, we now have a canonically super-evil werewolf 
who likes biting small children, and he's so obviously Lupin's 
opposite number. So if Lupin turns out to be evil too, who's left to 
show that werewolves aren't necessarily bad? You'd need someone 
extremely good and powerful to balance *both* Fenrir and ESE!Lupin. 
Luna would hardly fit the bill, and I don't remember her showing any 
symptoms in HBP either.

> 
> Speaking of Severus, in all those detention records Harry had to 
copy
> out, weren't there any of Snape's? D'you suppose he really was
> careful and clever enough to stay out of trouble, or that he charmed
> his records so Harry wouldn't notice them?
> 

Neri:
Maybe he wasn't called Snivellus for nothing. But if there were any 
records about him, he wouldn't even have to bother charming them. 
What do you think Crabbe and Goyle did for *their* detentions? It was 
probably like: "Goyle, have you learned to read already? Good. I want 
you to go over these records and burn anything with the name Snape in 
it." Standard cover-your-tracks triple-agent procedure.

Neri