#but if they think remus is eschewing that. that he’s shifting loyalties from the *marauders* to someone else (say…dumbledore) then that

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Tbh, I kinda figured that if Sirius and the Potters didn’t tell Remus about the switch because they suspected him (they knew the spy was someone in their inner circle + POA does have the line about Remus saying smth “not if they thought I was the spy” and Sirius going “sorry about that”) it would be because Remus, based on his secretive tendencies in canon, isn’t talking to them

yeah that line is what i was thinking of but i can’t seem to make it make sense because in my characterisation of j&s, if they even slightly thought they knew who the spy could be, i cannot imagine them just, what, waiting it out? not letting them into the big secret??? it just doesn’t click ykno?

and honestly, yeah. remus icing them out seems like the most plausible thing to me. im fleshing this out into a proper Thing for FoD, along with some lore for the fidelius as soul magic, bc i am unable to just let it be rn, but the biggest argument i can see is remus just. constantly keeping them at arms length and that being both a source of hurt and suspicion bc why wouldn’t he tell us??