Unreliable narrator (Was: Snape's stalling)

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 117397


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

> It is of course impossible to disprove all these suspicions 
now, unless JKR explicitly denies them in her website, and even 
then it is not always enough for some readers ;-). Therefore, we 
anti-conspiracy readers should be clear about our position. You 
simply trust Snape. I simply trust Lupin (and also Snape). No 
shame in it. There are very good chances we are right. Until now, 
JKR had never let us become really attached to a character and 
then told us he is ESE. She has no need to resort to such lowly 
means, when she can get much grander effects by using 
magical devices. In CoS it turns out that the most innocent and 
less suspicious person, ickle firstie Ginny Weasley, was the one 
who dunnit. Of course, she didn't know what she was doing at
the time. In the next two books it might be Ron or Hermione or 
Hagrid or Dumbledore. Why not? We have the Imperius curse, 
we have metamorphmagi who can assume the shape of any 
person. Who needs ESEs? <

Pippin:
We do, because, as you said,  there are some people you simply 
trust. If such a person has never chosen to betray you, then you 
are a lucky man. Magical devices won't cut it -- this is about 
choice. There is, IMO, something more important to Lupin than 
Harry. It wouldn't be the first time a good man has betrayed his  
dearest friend and fallen into bad company for a good cause. Et 
tu, Remus?


I agree with you about Dumbledore and Snape, surprisingly 
enough, and I'm not sure we're different types of reader. I 
initially thought suspecting Lupin was as absurd as you do--it 
was only in trying to build a deliberately absurd case against him 
as a joke that I discovered there was credible evidence.

I'm not a conspiracy theorist in real life--though if  you'd care to 
cut me in on the money JKR is paying you to contest my theories 
I'll be happy to take a share. (just kidding!)

Pippin