[HPforGrownups] Sleepy Lupin/ Sneakoscope/ Uncomplicated JKR?

[Edblanning at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 33994

In a message dated 23/01/02 22:55:49 GMT Standard Time, 
jdumas at kingwoodcable.com writes:


> hapaloca at aol.com wrote:
> 
> >> I'm surprised by the number of people on these lists who are Lupin 
> "fans", because the Sneakoscope episode made me suspicious of him the first 
> time I read PoA. After re-reading the chapter, it seems Lupin would the 
> most logical "sneak".  I know there is a question of the Sneakoscope's 
> reliability, but the timing might be foreshadowing.  I just wonder if the 
> Sneakoscope going off was more of a clue of where Lupin's character is 
> headed, since I believe JKR was quoted somewhere saying that Lupin will be 
> in the 5th book.<<
> 

Katze

> I think JKR introduced the sneakoscope to cast a doubt on Lupin's
> character, but we find out that Scabbers was the actual problem.
> Scabbers was in the compartment that HRH and Lupin were in when they
> were on their way to Hogwarts. 

I agree with Katze, but would add that since werewolves are regarded with 
such suspicion in the wizarding world, the Sneakoscope might well regard 
Lupin as untrustworthy. In fact, although I adore Lupin and have no doubts 
about him, I think Lupin himself would in a way regard himself as 
untrustworthy: he certainly has a problem with his lack of honesty to 
Dumbledore and  his omitting to take the Wolfsbane potion with its dire 
consequences could also be taken as worthy of mistrust. Depends what you mean 
by untrustworthy, I suppose. Just another example of the complexity of JKR's 
characters and the difficulty of defining issues of good and bad in black and 
white.

By the way, I can't resist throwing in this quote from yesterday's Daily 
Telegraph (UK broadsheet) apropos Philip Pullman winning the Whitbread prize:

'Adult read JK Rowling because she is not complicated; children read Philip 
Pullman because he is.'

I was thinking of reading Pullman. Obviously more than my small brain can 
cope with. Better leave it to the kids!

Eloise


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