Lupin, (him only, really)

[nrenka]

No: HPFGUIDX 117876


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> 
wrote:

> Pippin:
> You know, I'm beginning to wonder if JKR isn't feeling a tad guilty 
> over Lupin. She probably does wish he were a real person, 
> because a) she could rescue him from the wizarding world, the 
> way she rescued Harry from the Dursleys, and b) he'd have free 
> will and wouldn't have to make the choices that she has 
> ordained for him. 
> 
> All those buckets of tears she says she's wept over killing Cedric 
> and Sirius -- could they have been for the killer, as well as the 
> victims? 

Forgive me if you've answered this elsewhere, Pippin, but it sprang 
to mind as a good case of the question about JKR lying vs. JKR 
tricking us:

As I'm sure you know, and has been posted, umm, a while ago, JKR gave 
a 'that's right' to the person who asked if Wormtail killed Cedric 
with Voldemort's wand.  Not an "Umm, I don't think so", but a very 
straightfoward confirmation.  I seem to remember the postulation of 
two Wormtails, although I'll be mighty surprised if Remus Lupin is 
also called Wormtail, for some odd reason.  Not quite the same 
instance as two Lestrange brothers, after all.

But.  If ESE!Lupin is *actually* the killer, has not JKR lied to us?  
As in, flat out lie, lead us deliberately astray in a way not 
accomodated by nuance, with no kinds of qualifiers like could 
possibly be inserted into her continually positive character 
descriptions of Lupin?  Lupin not killing Cedric doesn't torpedo the 
entire theory, of course, but it seems to me like a slightly 
ridiculous point to hold onto in the face of authorial commentary.

-Nora goes back to idly working on papers