All about Lupin (warning: rant)

[Renee]

No: HPFGUIDX 122514


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> 
wrote:
> 
> >  I suppose  
> I like to think Jo has an artist's pride in her work, and it's 
easier 
> for me to believe that she made the character she calls her 
> favorite among the adults a  victim of evil rather than a victim 
of 
> sloppy writing. All that missing information got left out by 
> accident? I don't think so.

Renee:
Don't you think you should allow for a third possibility: that 
you're misinterpreting both the text and JKR's intentions? 

Pippin: 
> I don't regard myself as  subversive theorist. I'm not trying to 
> invent an alternate context for the books, I'm trying to make 
> sense of the context as I find it. I suppose I am a conspiracy 
> theorist, but only because in each of the books so far a 
> conspiracy has been unmasked. 

Renee:
I don't think it's possible to subvert an unfinished story. But it 
seems to me that being a conspiracy theorist when you're dealing 
with the mind of a single person instead of a RL riddle is a 
precarious position.