Lupin's Spying, WAS: Snape, Hagrid, and Sirius Black

[Sydney]

No: HPFGUIDX 148285


> >  This seemed like a bit
> > of thin excuse to me. 
> 
> kchuplis:
> See my "character behavior" post.

I read your character behaviour post.  I was especially fond of the
bit about people being egotistical about how characters should
behave... I think you were reading WAAAY more into my post than I meant.

> kchuplis:
(*snippage of anti-gay-Lupin arguments*)  Otherwise, I 
> guess I just have discovered that few people have close platonic 
> relationships in real life apparently. (And I point out that I have 
> numerous gay friends and am in no way shy about it. I just think folks 
> are doing an *awful* lot of wishful thinking here.)

Well, I never said OMG how could JKR lead us on like that?!?!  I said
it was a popular theory, which is was, and the very obliqueness of the
'clues' is what made it a fun theory.  Obviously that's not where JKR
was going with it.  But I honestly don't see where it was a CRAZY
theory, given that Lupin was still 'keeping his friend's secrets'
after being pretty sure his friend had murdered another friend and his
wife and twelve people and was now after some kid.  You'd think ANY
information would be, uh, pertinent, particularily information on,
like, secret passages and impenetrable dog-disguises.  And then they
move in together and start giving joint Christmas presents.  Like I
said, oblique, sure, but not CRAZY.  Or 'egotistical'.

Don't get me wrong, I LIKE Lupin.  I have no problem seeing him as a
lovely guy with issues about confrontation.  I don't see where his
character would be that different if he was gay or straight.  I wasn't
that attached to the gay Lupin theory, I just enjoyed people's
arguments in support of it, thought it seemed plausible, and thought
it would be rather like JKR to slide something in like that in an
allusive manner.  


-- Sydney, who STILL wants an answer to the spying!Lupin conundrum.