No mystery guest in OOP?

[Berit Jakobsen]

No: HPFGUIDX 90522

Cassie:  

Maybe that's my criteria. Good characters that WE would have never 
expected to be the villian.    

Berit replies:

Cassie asks why there are no seemingly good guy being revealed as the 
baddie in OoP like in the other four HP books. Other posts have 
suggested Umbridge, though she doesn't quite fit Cassie's criteria 
since she's already "bad". I've read the posts in this thread, and no 
one so far has suggested James. James is an interesting twist on 
the "bad-guy-being-revealed" theme! Of all the bad guy revelations, 
this one's the one that probably upset Harry the most. Harry finds 
out at last that his father James the saint and hero was no saint and 
that Snape was right all along. Of course, Sirius and Lupin try to 
balance the picture, assuring Harry James grew out of it and/or was 
not totally bad. But think about it: The most devastating revelation 
in OoP (maybe apart from Harry finding out the defeat of Voldemort 
lies entirely on his houlders) was for Harry to have the picture of a 
good and noble father shattered into a thousand pieces.

So I'm voting for James being the good guy revealed to be the villain 
in OoP... I know; it's a slight twist compared to the "good-guy-
turning-out-bad-revelations" in the previous books, but that makes 
the revelation even more significant in my eyes.

Berit
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