Lupin and Legilimency: Why Wait to Reveal?

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 129869

> Pippin: 
> He's a Pisces. Kind and wonderfully appreciative of others' needs.
> But also  dual-natured, easily misled, great actors, fickle and
> oft-deceived by their hopes.
> 
> 
> Alla:
> 
> What is Pisces? Is it a personal name or just a definition for what 
> you described? 

Pippin:
Lupin's birth sign is Pisces, the astrological sign of the fishes. 
http://www.elore.com/Astrology/Study/pisces.htm

Alla:
> Oh, of course it is meta meta thinking, but I thought quite a few 
> people agreed that no bad guys  had been wished happy birthday so
far I take it you are not one of them then.

Pippin:
I'm not going to base my opinion of a character on whether they
got a birthday wish from the author's website -- ambivalent characters
like Snape and Percy have been greeted, good characters like
Dumbledore have been passed over, and if Lupin is evil, then an evil 
character has been greeted, so what does that do to the theory?

The problem with viewing the unanswered questions about Lupin 
as red herrings is that they've never been resolved.

A proper red herring is part of the plot -- for example, we find out
the reasons for Bagman's and Karkaroff's actions in GoF, we learn why
Snape was following Harry around in PS/SS, we learn what Percy
was up to in CoS and Hagrid in OOP.  But we don't have any answers 
for Lupin  except the ones we've been making up ourselves.

It's very hard to reason against ESE!Lupin without calling on Flints
and plotholes, isn't it? <veg>

Pippin