Just a comment about Lupin's malady.

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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).

Lissa:

See, she speaks differently of characters she enjoys writing but are not good people- the Dursleys and Snape, for example.  But she flat out loves Lupin, and does put him in the same category as the trio and a few others I'd bet money on will stay on the good side until the end.  

Not only that, she's done the "good teacher/good personality turned evil" thing with Moody.  Granted, that wasn't really Moody, but for all the competent DADA teachers to be ESE so far?  It just seems too close there to me.
Huntergreen:
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.

Lissa:

I do see the point there, and I can see where she might have gone that way.  In fact, I think it's so plausible I think that's why Sirius believed it.  And if Wormtail hadn't already turned out to be ESE, I'd be much more sold on the idea.  But again, I tend to think that two of the mauraders turning out to be traitors is just too much.  

I keep thinking to myself that 1.) we only have two books left, and 2.) I know from my own experience that there's only so much you can load onto your characters before they go overdramatic.  Harry's lost his father and he's lost Sirius.  To lose Lupin to death I think he can cope with, but to lose him because Lupin betrayed him is just getting to be a little too much (especially when you add in everything else that Harry's going to be going through).  

I know this one's been argued to death, and we're not gonna know the answer anyway until the books are written (and Lupin freaking dies at Wormtail's hand), but yeah.  I'm definitely not an ESE-er!  Ah well.  

Liss

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