Would JKR make Lupin evil?

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 39834

Me:
> > If JKR only put Lupin in the story to be the poster boy for 
persons  with disabilities, and the only reaction she wants to 
evoke is,  "Awww,  poor woobie!" then I concede.  This particular 
hedgehog  won't fly. Evil!Lupin is the product of nobody's 
imagination but my  own.

Marina:
> That's a bit of a strawman argument, if you ask me.  The only 
possible alternative to the Evil!Lupin storyline is pathetic 
propaganda?<<

Er, no.  I was countering Ali's argument, which I should have 
quoted: 

>>>it depends on whether you believe that JKR is using 
Lupin to make a positive message. Evil Lupin gives a warning, 
but it isn't positive.<<<

Ali was saying, if I understood her correctly, that Lupin has to be 
good or it would send a negative message about seriously ill 
people because he is symbolic of all seriously ill people. I 
wanted to show that the message could be nuanced and still be 
effective in persuading people to become committed advocates 
and care-givers. 

Marina:
>>> If a potentially good and noble man is going to be pushed 
toward evil by bigotry and hate, I wanna see it happen *now*, not 
hear a speech about how it happened fifteen years ago.  "Show, 
don't tell" is the motto.<<<

The most important part of the scenario hasn't happened yet. 
Remember, this only works if  Dumbledore is betrayed. That can 
happen on stage. So can Harry's confrontation with Remus 
when he figures out the truth.

Ultimately the story isn't about Remus, it's about Harry. In my 
version, it's about about Harry realizing what happened to the 
man he thought he knew. By  the end of GoF, Harry has been 
exposed as a parselmouth, suspected of mental instability and 
people are "formulating their own theories as to how Cedric 
died." (I wonder if they've come up with MAGIC DISHWASHER?)  
How will the wizarding world react?  We don't have to see it 
happen to Lupin, if it threatens to happen  to Harry too.

 By the time he confronts Lupin, sometime in Book Seven, Harry 
will have  had plenty of time to experience  some of what Lupin's 
been dealing with all his life.  

Pippin