Evil Lupin/McGonagall

[random_monkey0_0]

No: HPFGUIDX 39958

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

Why, so you are! Now, why did I write David? I really don't know, but 
I apologise profusely. Now please get the shotgun away from my right 
temple. ;-P
 
> 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. 

No, "faulty evidence" is a misnomer. I have problems sometimes with.. 
what's it called... You know, knowing a lot of words and stuff... I 
think it starts with a "B"...

Anyway, I meant that some evidence can be interpreted either way. For 
example, a friend of mine once said that the Cubs are better than the 
Sox because the Cubs have a pitcher who looks like Abe Lincoln. 

***BEFORE THEY START COMING IN, DO NOT REPLY TO THIS! I DO NOT WANT TO 
GET HOWLERS BECAUSE I LED EVERYONE ON AN OT DEBATE THAT WILL PROBABLY 
BECOME A BLOODBATH!***

But I pointed out to him that that could be an argument for either 
side. It all depends on what you think of people who look like Abe 
Lincoln.

Actually, I was referring to the fact that McGonagall didn't make a 
patronus to ward off Crouch Jr.'s dementor. It can be interpereted 
several ways: She was too flustered (Oh, yeah, women go to pieces in 
an emergency, dontcha know), didn't know how, couldn't do it, didn't 
have time, was trying to off Junior anyway, etc. This one point 
doesn't serve as very good evidence because it can be interpereted so 
many ways.

> 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.
>
Understood, but by this logic, Ron, Hermione, Snape, Lupin, Sirius, 
Ginny, Neville, Fred, George, and Dumbedore cannot be evil. That does 
somewhat limit the choices. (I am basing popularity on what I've seen 
at FF.net, as opposed to this nuthouse, where the Order of the Flying 
Hedgehog rules and Harry Potter himself is evil. ;-) )
 
> Darrin Burnett
> -- Once killed a man for calling him David

The Random Monkey, who likes to argue with _Darrin_, and not David, 
whom if he died, she wouldn't be brokenhearted.