Evil!Lupin, InadvertentKiller!Lupin, Dead!Lupin

[Morgan D.]

No: HPFGUIDX 59802

amy_marblefeet dropped the bomb:
> Well ladies and gentlemen of the jury, Lupin is going 
> to eat Denis Creevey.

And now Morgan D. -- after recovering from the shock -- muses:
 
The reason I doubt Lupin will kill someone in a full-moon frenzy is 
the same that lead me to doubt Evil!Lupin. JKR used Lupin in PoA to 
discuss prejudice against people with serious, dangerous diseases -- 
many of us have drawn parallels with victims of AIDS, mental 
disorders, etc. 

If I was to dismiss the moralising speech in the HP books, maybe I 
could buy Evil!Lupin or InadvertentKiller!Lupin. But the way I see 
things, I find extremely unlikely that JKR will want to throw all the 
anti-prejudice arguments of PoA in the trash can. Or do we expect to 
see Snape saying at the end of the books, "See? I *told* you 
werewolves can't be trusted", and Dumbledore replying, "You're right, 
Severus. I learned my lesson, I'll never allow werewolves to have an 
education again". That would be a dreadful message to victims of AIDS 
and other diseases, an appalling message to minorities of all kinds, 
and a terrible lesson to teach the children, in my humble opinion.

On the other hand, as much as I love Remus and hope to see him alive 
and happy in the epilogue of Book 7, I think Dead!Lupin is a real 
possibility. Lupin making the ultimate sacrifice to protect Harry 
and/or the Light Magic, proving that indeed "werewolves aren't all 
bad" (FB&WtFT, p 41, US), that seems to be a scenario to fit the 
pattern.

Then again, it has been discussed here how Hagrid and Lupin 
apparently represent both the same role (the disfavoured minorities) 
and that, since there's one too many for the same post, one should 
die. Well, if that's the case, at this point I tend to think that 
Hagrid is more likely to kick the bucket. That's because, speaking of 
fiction with moralising aspects, I think the death of a minority 
representative should bring redemption to the social group he 
represents.

Now, we were already promised that the Giants will be in the story. 
So, in my simplistic math, if Hagrid dies gloriously protecting the 
wizarding world, people will say, "oh my, I think we might have 
misjudged the Giants, let's call them back and be friends". But Lupin 
is the only werewolf we know, and so far we don't have any clues 
pointing to more werewolves showing up. So far, there's no hints that 
Dead!Lupin might make the lives of other werewolves any better. 

Just a final comment: many point Dead!Lupin as a strong possibility 
because of Peter's silver hand. But we don't have any canonical 
mention to werewolves being vulnerable to silver yet. It's not even 
mentioned in "Fantastic Beasts" (and I found that particularly 
curious). Werewolf lore speaks of silver bullets, so we consider this 
common knowledge, but in fact JKR could very well dismiss this bit of 
myth as yet another example of Muggles' misconceptions of the magical 
world. It's her universe after all.

Morgan D.
Hogwarts Letters - http://www.hogwartsletters.hpg.com.br