[HPforGrownups] Re: A case against Evil Lupin

[Margaret Dean]

No: HPFGUIDX 39949

rosie wrote:
 
> 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? 

Have to agree with this.  Lupin is, after all, the teacher that
JKR has been quoted as saying she'd most want to teach her own
daughter!  Now, would she really say that if he was evil?


--Margaret Dean, refusing point-blank to believe in an evil Lupin
  <margdean at erols.com>