How to contstruct an ESE!plot was Re: The Secret Revealed! ESE!Arthur

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 147094

> Pippin
> <SNIP>
> > Peter should have known that James's friends would go mad and 
> > seek revenge? After twelve years? And Lupin wasn't mad, the 
> > whole point of discrimination against werewolves being mere
> > prejudice is that when they're not transformed they're just 
> > as much in control of themselves as other people are. 
> 
> Alla:
> 
> Are you saying that NOTHING in what Lupin learned that night,  the 
> revelations which made his whole world go upside down, could have 
> made him just a little bit upset? 

Pippin:
Upset?! I daresay he was upset. And that's an excuse for murder, is
it? Funny, you don't seem to be so lenient where Snape is concerned.
Wasn't his world being turned upside down too? 

Come to think of it, Sirius had agreed to go to the castle, 
as long as Peter came too, but Lupin doesn't say, oh no, we mustn't kill him, 
let's take him up to the castle like you said before. 

And then he makes ready to kill a man who's begging for mercy,
though not from him, you'll notice. That makes me think there's hope
for Peter. At least he had the self-respect not to beg for his life from
Lupin. Now, if he can manage some of that in front of
Voldemort himself....

It  is  refreshing to encounter a villain who doesn't rant,
but "You should have known..." is a gloat, which is not very goodguy
like. And that reminds me,  don't you think it's strange that
Snape, who never misses a chance to gloat, didn't gloat over 
Dumbledore? If he was really filled with hatred and revulsion, 
wouldn't he have made a speech about it? Gloated a little? 
Basked in the glory? Can you imagine Snape missing a chance
to do that? What could have come over him? ;-)


> Pippin
> <SNIP>
> > Lupin's initial appearance, a stranger handing out candy to children
> > on a train -- so much for worrying that kids will feel betrayed, 
> isn't that exactly the 'friendly' stranger they've been warned about?
> 
> 
> Alla:
> 
> Not in my book. Sorry! This is the stranger, whose very first act 
> when he starts actually acting is to fight darkness of the Dementors 
> with light of the Patronus. Not the symbolism I would picture evil 
> character to be introduced with.

Pippin:
His first act was to stand there arguing with it, which Dumbledore tells
us never works. He doesn't get rid of it until after Harry passes out. Not
very nice. And what was it doing there anyway? Who ordered it to 
invade the train?

Pippin