[HPforGrownups] Re: A case against Evil Lupin

[rosie]

No: HPFGUIDX 39936

pippin wrote:
"JKR has said that she didn't write the books with the intention of 
becoming a best-selling author. She writes them to please 
herself. As far as we know she's answerable only to her own 
sense of taste. She's not dependent on her publisher's wishes 
and she's got more money than she can spend. If she means to 
do something impractical or unbusinesslike,  what's to stop her?"

I think you are right here, but at the same time, JKR has said how much she loves some of the characters and she is very personally involved with them. I'm not sure if Lupin fits in here, but if a character comes over as very likeable to us readers, it would seem that JKR herself likes the character, and therefore would perhaps not want, herself, to make them evil? For example, I really couldn't see Mrs Weasley becoming a D.E. 

On the other hand, there was Evil!Moody: he seemed so nice and then wasn't. Perhaps Lupin is a similar breed? (I don't mean he is someone else in disguise though :) ). Harry does notice some similarities between them: when Moody is kind to Neville and praises his Herbology skills, Harry notes that this was "the sort of thing Professor Lupin might have done". Could Lupin be bad unknowingly - could his werewolf status be exploited?

Rosie  



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