Support for the ESE Lupin theory (not)

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 123845


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "naamagatus" 
<naama_gat at h...> wrote:
> 

> > Neri:
> > <snip well written reply>
> >  So in
> > > JKR's view ESE!Lupin would *be* a heinous mass 
murderer  and traitor who, very superficially, has some good 
abilities. He  certainly cannot be described as a "wonderful" 
person. She might write such a character, but *liking* him 
seems out of the question
> > 
> > Pippin:
> > Why?  We seem to have agreed   that liking and favoring are 
> > superficial emotional reactions to superficial traits. 

Naama: 
> In that quote JKR talks about the characters she *loves*. 

Pippin:
Here's the quote:

 I really like Professor Lupin, the character,
because he's somebody who also has his failing he's such a 
great man and he's a wonderful teacher in fact I would say that 
Lupin is the one time I'vewritten a teacher I loved really liked to 
have had because ProfessorMcGonnagol is a very good teacher 
but she can be quite scary at times, very strict. So Lupin's a 
wonderful teacher and a very nice man but he has a failing and 
his failing is that he does like to be liked and that's where he
slips up because he has been disliked so often that he's always 
so pleased to have friends so he cuts them and awful lot of 
slack.

http://www.quick-quote-quill.org/articles/2003/0626-alberthall-fry.
htm

So it sounds there as if she's talking about liking him as a 
character, she says he's a wonderful *teacher*, and she corrects 
herself from "loved" to "really liked". I really think that can be 
interpreted any number of ways. There is no quote, AFAIK, where 
she says he's a good person.

Pippin