Help with Lupin's boggart

[Renee]

No: HPFGUIDX 96298

>> Pippin
> wondering why people want to believe so firmly in Lupin's 
> honesty when he is a confessed deceiver

The classical paradox. "I'm such a deceiver!" says the deceiver.
Is he honest when he says this? Then how can he be a deceiver? 
Is he dishonest? Then he isn't speaking the truth and therefore 
can't be a deceiver. 
Ergo, Lupin is honest...

My non-paradoxical reply would be more like this:

1) Fact: JKR has said that Lupin's her favourite adult character, 
and that she'd let him teach her own daughter. 
Would she want a dishonest person to teach her daughter?

2) My personal view: One of the main points these books are trying 
to make is that discrimination is wrong. A discriminated werewolf 
faking to be good while really being evil would rather undermine 
this point (I shudder to think Umbridge was right introducing all 
the extra anti-werewolf legislation). I'd be surprised if I were the 
only one to read the series this way.   

Renee