Lupin as a metaphor (was: DD and the rat)

[Renee]

No: HPFGUIDX 116040


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> 
wrote:
>> 
> Pippin:
>  Sherry and Renee, your posts were very moving. I am aware of 
> JKR's mother's illness -- my own sister suffers from  MS. 

Renee: 
I'm sorry to hear this! (A classmate of mine died of it before the 
age of 30, and the husband of a friend suffers from it, but no doubt 
you know more about it than I do.)

 And I 
> agree with your premise. If the theory meant the book had to end 
> as you describe, with werewolves worse off than they were, or 
> the courage with which Lupin *appears* to endure his condition 
> discredited, it would be rubbish. 
> 
> I don't think it does. Harry is the hero, and he will make it his 
> business to see that doesn't happen. He will not only say that 
> it's unfair to make one person, good or bad, the representative of 
> an entire class of people, he'll prove it. 
> 
<snip>
 
> I think  JKR is sensitive enough and Harry is ingenious and 
> brave enough to resolve this, even if it means, say, that his 
> beloved godfather has to go down in WW history as the traitor. 
> 
> Pippin

Renee:

I really hope so, and I'm fairly confident he will (though I do hope 
Sirius will be vindicated, but that's a different matter). Even so, 
even a Lupin who is 'courted' by the Death Eaters - and perhaps for 
that reason loses the trust of Sirius & James - but overcomes the 
temptation to join them, makes for a better message than one who 
succumbs. 

Not to mention the fact that it makes Sirius' choice of Peter for a 
Secret Keeper more tragically ironic if he both distrusted the good 
guy and trusted the bad one. Perhaps it's also my sense of tragic 
irony that rebels against ESE!Lupin. 

Renee