Support for the ESE Lupin theory (not)

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 123792


 
> Neri again:
> Umm, let me see if I got that right. ESE!Lupin is a traitor and a
 murderer several times over, yet JKR likes him because he may 
change.She will offer him a chance to change, but he will refuse 
it and die a traitor and a murderer. Sorry, I think I lost it again. 
Why did you say she likes him? Oh, because he may change. 
But he won't. Goodness,
> I'm completely baffled now...

Pippin:
Goodness, she doesn't like him because he might change. She 
likes him because he's clever and kind and gives good lessons.
JKR could love him like a mom who recognizes her grownup 
son has become a criminal, but still loves him and wishes he 
could change. 

Give some credit to JKR's creativity. Anybody can imagine a 
cruel, stupid sadistic person doing evil things. But how dull! How 
much more challenging to create a wonderful man who, 
because of one failing, being too cowardly to stand up to his 
friends, is entrapped in a secret life  that eventually destroys him. 

Neri:
> Also, according to this argument, can I assume that Snape, 
who is now having his second chance, also may have murdered 
12 innocent muggles or something similar when he was a DE? 
But still, since he has now changed, why isn't he included in the 
list of characters JKR likes?<

'Cause he's nasty. But again, it's no great challenge to make a 
nasty guy, who has all the qualities one happens to dislike in a 
person,  a baddie. How much more interesting to imagine that 
because he has one strength, (what it is, we don't know yet and 
JKR is decidedly not telling) he was able to find redemption.

Pippin