Would JKR make Lupin evil?

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 39669

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "alhewison" <Ali at z...> wrote:
> All the posts about *evil* Lupin have scared me. I can't help 
feeling  a bit suspicious of one of favourite characters - that is 
despite all the valiant attempts at *proving* Lupin's innocence. 
BUT, although I cannot back up my argument with canon I doubt 
whether JKR would make  Lupin evil.
> 
> JKR has developed a world without racism as we know it - but 
> nevertheless full of prejudice and bigotry. Isn't she using the 
likes 
> of Lupin and the questions of full blood etc to challenge 
racism,  stereotyping etc? JKR has allowed us, the reader to 
advance beyond  Lupin's Wizard counterparts by allowing us - 
through Harry - to trust  Lupin. What would she actually be saying 
to us if Lupin did turn out  to *be* evil? She would be saying that 
the WW is right to distrust Lupin - and by inference - we are right 
to distrust those Lupin  represents (be they the mentally ill, the 
deformed, those of  different religions or ethnic backgrounds - 
but more simply the  misunderstood, the different ones).
<<<<

You make a good point. But sometimes people bend over 
backwards to avoid prejudice and end up giving people a break 
on account of their background when they really don't deserve it. 
JKR may be trying to show us this. 

 I have long maintained that Snape has connections to 
the vampires, and people have countered  that it would be 
redundant to have two good characters in such a similar 
position. However, if Lupin is evil, then "Snape's a vampire" isn't 
so redundant after all.

Pippin