[HPforGrownups] Arsene Lupin

[Kemper]

No: HPFGUIDX 157418

potioncat wrote:
>
> Not so long ago there was a fast and furious thread about mystery
> novels, unreliable narrators and Agatha Christie---with a little
> Harry Potter tossed in. I've read "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd" and
> now I'm reading Agatha Christie's autobiography. Great stuff!
>
>... snip ...
>
> One of Agatha Christie's favorite mystery series concerned Arsene
> Lupin, a French series. From what I can tell, Arsene is nothing like
> Remus. Is anyone familiar with that series? Opinions? Everything I
> know I found at Google.
>
> I'm guessing at the very least JKR may have been familiar with the
> character, or do you think she plucked the name out of her garden?
>
> Potioncat, who also found a Trelawney in AC's autobiography.
>
> 

Kemper now:

I heard Arsene was based on the French anarchist, Marius Jacob.
(Many people have a misconception of the philosophy of Anarchy.  It is
not the absent of rules; it is the absent of rulers.  For more info on
social anarchy, read the works of MIT's Linguistic professor, Noam
Chomsky or the works of the social historian who flew in WWII bomb
missions, Howard Zinn.)

Now... how to keep this on-topic...?
If JKR read the Arsene series than she may know of whom he was based off of.
However, Lupin seems closer to lupine than to Arsene.  I'm sure it's
coincidence.
But maybe not.

Can anyone else link Lupin's personal philosophy with anarchy or
Arsene (the gentleman burglar)?

Kemper