How Close Are Harry and Lupin?

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 96791

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214" 
<dumbledore11214 at y...> wrote:

> I think that if Sirius was still officially alive, I would have 
> probably bought Pippin's brilliantly argued theory. 

::blushes:: Thank you!

Alla:
>But right now I  do not believe that JKR would make the last of 
the Marauders, whom  she admitted being one of her favourite 
characters to be evil. Yes,  it is metathinking, but so what? :o)<


Lupin is not the last of the Marauders.  ESE!Lupin goes hand in 
hand with redeemed Pettigrew, especially if it turns out that 
some of Peter's evil deeds were actually committed by Lupin. It 
may turn out that Peter is not wholly ruined, even if he did all the 
things he is accused of. "Though your sins be as scarlet..."  

I know a lot of people have trouble with the author's favorite adult 
character being evil, but this wouldn't be as strange as it sounds. 
The villains are the mainspring of the plot. Everything happens 
because of them. 

They are the most difficult characters to manipulate in the 
mystery genre. So much of  what they do must be hidden from 
the reader and yet if their actions are not absolutely credible, the 
story falls flat. In other words, the author has  to invest quite a
bit of  thought in  them, even if through most of the story they
don't seem to be doing anything particularly important. 

Often, in order to throw some light on their actions, the writer will 
relate the details of an earlier, similar crime.  ESE!Lupin may be 
foreshadowed by ESE!Ginny in CoS. Lest we forget, she stole 
back the diary of her own free will, uncompelled by possession, 
spell or curse. She  knew it was evil. She knew it was compelling 
her to do evil things. She knew she was too weak to resist it 
alone. But she couldn't bring herself to ask for help, "*c-couldn't * 
say it in front of Percy," couldn't bear to think of being expelled 
from Hogwarts, couldn't bear to let great, famous, good Harry 
Potter think she'd been strangling roosters, didn't want to think 
about what Mum and Dad would say. 

I believe that the Marauders' story is basically a tragedy and  that 
this is one of the reasons JKR is not planning a prequel. In 
classical  tragedy the protagonist is compelled to do evil by a 
single flaw. In ancient times it was hubris, in renaissance 
dramas it was passion, but the quintessential modern tragedy is 
Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. Like Remus Lupin, Willy 
Loman's  flaw was his desire to be well-liked.

Pippin