Man, just reading about this chapter gives me the chills. ...Along with many other instances in the series. Kids' books my ass.
I'm dying to know why Sirius would have thought Remus was the spy. It's been suggested that Peter sowed the seeds of distrust in Sirius's mind, which I rather like.
I think that it's a combination of wartime paranoia, Peter's machinations, and a subconscious mistrust of Remus's ability to distance himself from his emotions. We know that werewolves would have benefitted from a Voldemort victory. We know that Remus was close to his friends, or acted that way, but - Sirius had betrayed him, and Remus still acted as though there had been total forgiveness. I think it's very likely that Remus never forget and never let Sirius forget, however much they pretended otherwise. But even beyond that, just the fact that Remus is such a coldblooded bastard when he needs to be... His friends must have picked up on that, believed that Remus was capable of betraying them if he got desperate enough, even if he didn't want to.
...Personally, I like to think that James was a big proponent of Remus-the-spy, possibly in concert with Peter (though for entirely different reasons), but that's just a hunch...
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I'm dying to know why Sirius would have thought Remus was the spy. It's been suggested that Peter sowed the seeds of distrust in Sirius's mind, which I rather like.
I think that it's a combination of wartime paranoia, Peter's machinations, and a subconscious mistrust of Remus's ability to distance himself from his emotions. We know that werewolves would have benefitted from a Voldemort victory. We know that Remus was close to his friends, or acted that way, but - Sirius had betrayed him, and Remus still acted as though there had been total forgiveness. I think it's very likely that Remus never forget and never let Sirius forget, however much they pretended otherwise. But even beyond that, just the fact that Remus is such a coldblooded bastard when he needs to be... His friends must have picked up on that, believed that Remus was capable of betraying them if he got desperate enough, even if he didn't want to.
...Personally, I like to think that James was a big proponent of Remus-the-spy, possibly in concert with Peter (though for entirely different reasons), but that's just a hunch...