Support for the ESE Lupin theory (not)

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No: HPFGUIDX 123813


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


Yep, me too. 

We should also bear in mind that in JKR's mind, the story is 
complete. So, it's not even that Lupin will refuse to change (future 
tense), but that (in her head), he has already done so. So, one of 
her favorite characters is a person who betrayed his best friends and 
their baby boy and condemned his other best friend to a lifetime in 
Azkaban, and who *she knows* hasn't the courage or heart to change.


Naama