Just a comment about Lupin's malady.

huntergreen_3 patientx3 at aol.com
Mon Aug 2 14:35:45 UTC 2004


No: HPFGUIDX 108514

Huntergreen previously:
>>> you bring up a good point here, Lupin comes to grips with Sirius, 
James and Lily keeping something rather big from him because they 
thought he was a spy really fast, doesn't he? If ESE!Lupin is true, 
that's exactly how he'd react (how can he be offended about being 
thought a spy if he is one?).<<<

Lissa replied:
>> SO against the ESE!Lupin theory. I could be wrong, and I know 
there's stuff in canon to point to it, but I just can't see JKR 
turning him evil. For one, he's one of her favorite characters. <<

HunterGreen:
That I would not trust. The evil characters are usually the most fun 
to write (especially subversively evil). And just because he's ESE! 
doesn't negate the fact that he's a good teacher and can, on some 
things, be a good person (as in he has a good personality, but a very 
big dark side).

>> And for two, she's said that she's been playing with the theme of 
intolerance with Lupin. She's not going to turn him around
and make him evil, because that basically says "See? He deserved the 
treatment he was getting all along!" <<

I wouldn't see it that way. Its more the intolerance *turned* him 
ESE!. As you said yourself in your previous post, Sirius might have 
suspected Lupin because >>One of Voldie's strategies that we keep 
hearing about is to recruit creatures that the WW denies rights to<< 
that very well may have been the reason that ESE!Lupin turned to 
Voldemort's side. Its not he deserved the intolerance because he's 
evil, he became evil because of the intolerance. On the other hand, 
you are free to believe what ever you want to, and I know you're not 
alone in being against ESE!Lupin.







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