Evil Lupin/McGonagall

[darrin_burnett]

No: HPFGUIDX 39918

Random Monkey wrote:


> On Evil!Lupin, David_Burnett:
> > For sheer practicality, I'm not sure JKR turns someone that 
popular 
> > bad. It's simply not good business. :)
> 
> Have you ever been to somelace like Fanfiction.net? Do a search or 
> Severus Snape and see how many Mary Sues (or even Gary Stus) you 
find. 
> (I don't know why I bring this up, since I am adamantly against 
> LYCANTHROPEs. In fact, I think Evil!McGonagall is silly, too. I 
just 
> don't like theories to be disproved with faulty evidence. That, and 
I 
> like to argue. ;^_^)
> 
> The Random Monkey, who, for sme reason, seems to love arguing with 
> David


I'm DARRIN! :) David is my evil twin, who wonders why Voldermort 
keeps getting this bad rap.

I really try to avoid fanfiction. It always either disappoints me or 
angers me. That's not just for HP stuff. It's for all manners of pop 
culture.

I'm not sure what faulty evidence you refer to, if you mean what I 
said about Lupin being too lucrative to turn evil. I'm just pointing 
out that when a character is as popular as Lupin is, you think very 
carefully before making him a bad guy. 

Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert, illustrated it perfectly. When 
he introducted a cat into the comic strip, hundreds of fans wrote to 
him and said: "More Catbert."

He hadn't named the cat. They just assumed that it would follow 
Ratbert, Dogbert, etc...

Quoth Mr. Adams: "When hundreds of readers spontaneously pick the 
same name for the character, it seems a good idea to keep him."

I think Lupin falls in the same category.

It's not faulty evidence, just evidence that calls on different 
sources -- the mood of the marketplace -- rather than clues in the 
dialogue.

Hey, what does LYCANTHROPE stand for? This place is really Acronym 
crazy.

Darrin Burnett
-- Once killed a man for calling him David