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

[Kathy King]

No: HPFGUIDX 147096

> 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.



Snow:



The first thing I thought of when I read this was Moody/Crouch Jr. in GOF
turning Draco into a ferret. Real bad guys do nice things to worm their way
into their victim's good graces by appearing to be at the victim's defense
in order to gain their trust.



Voldemort himself recruits his followers (dementors, giants, werewolves like
Fenrir), in much the same way, with offerings the Ministry would never
consider. That's the way of a really 'good' bad person.



No one suspected Moody and in fact there are still readers who really liked
the way that he acted despite the fact that in the end he proclaims his
utter faithfulness to his master.

Kids are easily manipulated by various degrees of false proclamations of
caring like in the example Pippin gave of offering a child candy; all kids
know that one though "don't take candy from strangers". Funny how Harry
appeared to be a bit hesitant to eat it though, must have been all those
years growing up as a muggle hearing that commercial.



Snow


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