Lupin and Legilimency: Why Wait to Reveal?

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No: HPFGUIDX 129872

> Pippin:
> > Is his boggart really a full moon or does the "silvery orb" 
> > represent something else?
> 
> Alla:
> 
> Full moon, definitely full moon. :-)

Alisha:
Doesn't Lupin say as much when asking Hermione how she figured out 
he was a werewolf?

> Alla:
> And now, my question, what do you make of the fact that JKR wished 
> him Happy Birthday?
> 
> Is he the only villain, who had been wished Happy Birthday so far? 
If 
> so, why make an exception?
> 
> I also want to know what do you make of the fact that JKR would 
love 
> him to teach her daughter?
> 
> OK, in all other instances when she praises Lupin, I guess you can 
> make a case that she refers specifically to his teaching skills, 
not 
> to him as a person, but I am having a very hard time buying an 
> argument that JKR would want a teacher for her daughter, who 
serves 
> an evil monster, even thouh he is professionally all right.
> 
> Just my opinion of course,
> 


Alisha:
JKR has also mentioned that Lupin is (at least one of) her favorite
(s).  In an interview with cBBC Newsround in July 2000:

Interviewer: Now the future. Lupin's going to come back in book five 
isn't he?
JKR: You'll see Lupin again in five yeah, yeah - do you like Lupin?

Interviewer: Oh yes, he's my favourite.
JKR: Yeah and me. I always looked forward to writing book three 
because of Professor Lupin, I love him. 


It seems unlikely that JKR would love him if he were really evil.  
She has said, for instance, that while she loves writing Snape, she 
doesn't like him.

Alisha- who hopes against hope that Lupin remains as cool as he is 
right now.