Lupin and Sirius WAS Re: Some questions

[Eileen Rebstock]

Kathy:
> (8)   Friends have deserted him (?) via no picture (next to) with his
> bestest buds in the Order pic and he isn't called upon for Harry's
> baptismal, and one of his bestest buds (that broke all school rules
for
> him)
> thinks he is the Spy on the Order; therefore making Pettigrew the
secret
> keeper instead of himself.

I don't see his friends as having deserted him. More the other way
around. There are subtle indications in the flashback pensieve scene
that Lupin was already drifting away from Sirius and James in his fifth
year. I pegged him there as the kid with the troubled conscience who
tries not to *see* his friends' behaviour. If Sirius set up the prank,
as Lupin tells it, Lupin had further reason to distance himself. I don't
think they outright broke with each other, just drifted apart. I really
don't see Lupin and Sirius as ever being close by themselves without
James, sorry puppyshippers, until PoA, when they embrace each other like
brothers and forgive *everything*, starting with what happened in school
between them. And then they become very close, the two survivors. 

> no one doubts him because he is
> ...well...Lupin...the good guy! And we don't want him to be bad cause
JKR likes
> him and well SO DO I...but that isn't enough reason not to suspect
him, or
> is it?

It might be. My instinctive reaction to "Lupin is Ever So Evil" is that
I can't think of *any* author who's set up a character to be loved for
most of a *series*, then revealed at the last moment they were actually
evil all along. A book seems to be the longest those stunts are even
taken. JKR may be doing something completely new, but I instinctively
doubt it, particularly as - let's face it - it'd traumatize child
readers. 

Eileen