The 'Seeming' Reality

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 155647

> wynnleaf
> I haven't seen her mention Collins, but the technique of putting truth in a 
> disagreeable character's mouth as certainly not only from JKR.  In fact, 
> it's so interesting that so far I *think* that all of Snape's comments that 
> we have any proof of, one way or the other, have turned out to be true, or 
> at least there is some strong evidence to support them.  I 

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> I'm still wondering who we'll be surprised at in Book 7.  Surely not just 
> Snape.

Pippin:
There's also the trick of putting unpleasant truths in an agreeable 
character's mouth.

Ask yourself what Lupin might have done  if all his 
self-deprecating comments  turned out to be true -- he keeps telling
people he's dangerous and untrustworthy. He practically begs them 
to believe it. But Harry's not listening and neither is most of the 
readership.

There is an awful lot that the narrative does not tell us about Lupin, 
leaving the reader to fill in the blanks with  assumptions and 
analogies that may or may not be valid. 

Pippin