Cynicism and Betrayal in Canon

[dicentra63 <dicentra@xmission.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 51274

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "David <dfrankiswork at n...>"
<dfrankiswork at n...> wrote:
> Jim Ferer wrote:
> 
> > It's not hard to find speculation here about Evil!Lupin,
> > Evil!Dumbledore, Evil!McGonagall, Evil!Sirius, and so on; who did I
> > miss? Someone, I'm sure.
>
David added: 
> That would be Ron.

Hey, we've managed to "out" just about everyone in the series as Ever
So Evil (ESE), including Trevor the Toad.  Most of the speculations
were made for the pure fun of it, though, using extremely thin canon
evidence and tortuous readings.  However, Pippin will tell you that
she began Evil!Lupin as a lark and discovered that canon really *did*
suggest an Evil!Lupin.

David again:
> it seems to me quite 
> plausible that *someone* fairly major who is already an established 
> part of the series will turn out not to have been what they seemed 
> all along, without damaging the themes JKR is plugging.

And if it's going to make for a good story, it's got to be someone you
 never suspected.  Someone who hasn't been marked with suspicion, the
way Fudge, Ludo, and Snape have.  Or someone whom we formerly thought
bad and had his name cleared--Sirius--or someone who already wasn't
who we thought he was--Moody.
> 
> My money would be on McGonagall

39470 is Elkins's convincing "outing" of McGonagall, but it's hard to
say whether Elkins has her tongue firmly planted in cheek or if she
thinks she's onto something.

> David, cooking up his evil!Hermione theory

Do we have one of those in the archives, folks?  ::flips through
them::  Nope!  Don't believe we do!

Godspeed David.  May the text be with you.

--Dicentra