'chained these 12 years' / Order-on-Order death /

[pippin_999]

Catlady:
> I don't want Remus to be ESE, but even more I don't want Sirius's
last thought in life to have been that Remus unexpectedly killed him.
If Sirius expected it, or Sirius didn't notice that it was Remus, or
it wasn't Remus, those are better outcomes.

Pippin:
Why though? Given that he died in shock and fear, is it not
 more flattering to Sirius if his shock was that a friend had turned
traitor and his fear was that his other friends were at risk, rather 
than that his shock was that he hadn't actually expected he 
might die, and his fear was of dying? 

> 
> Pippin wrote in
> <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/the_old_crowd/message/4749>:
> 
> << If JKR has somehow managed to inspire in me the plot of a full
> blown spy novel which she didn't write, I shall be far too
busyfiling> off the serial numbers and writing it myself. :) >>
> 
> I think 'filing off the serial numbers' would be plenty difficult.
The cauldron-full of Wolfsbane Potion is kind of recognizable, and the
> Fidelius Charm...
>
Pippin:
The recognizable parts are window-dressing. The wolfsbane potion could
be any other medication or device which could secretly enable a
supposed invalid to commit a crime. IIRC, both Chandler and Christie
plotted mysteries where a wheelchair-bound villain turned
out to be a little more ambulatory than anyone thought.

Fidelius could be any way of supposedly confining information
to a select few. The weak link was not magical even in canon
as we have it. 

ESE!Lupin as I see it is about a kind, clever, wonderful man
who allows himself to be caught up in a terrorist takeover. He
becomes a murderer in his own right less to further the aims 
of the terrorists than to avoid confronting what he's become.
The plot doesn't even require a fantasy setting, much less the WW,
though fantasy does have advantages when you want to write about evil.
 

Pippin