Villains in Storytelling, WAS Snape Survey

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 149095

Sydney:
> HP has a LOT of characters.  Some of them are clearly Cruela de
> Vil-style villains, like Lockhart or Umbrige.  Some are more
> sophisticated villains like Pettigrew, who is a marvellous, very-well
> motivated character that I'm not sure where Rowling is taking! 

Pippin:
Aw, c'mon Sydney, you're almost there.  I'll bet you can't figure out where
Rowling's taking Pettigrew  because he's not a villain, sophisticated or 
otherwise.

He's a stooge. He used to be a stooge for James, then he was stolen
and became a stooge for Voldemort. I suspect he'll get tired of his
stoogeyness one day and take a hand, pun intended. I keep thinking 
the hand of the other must be him, somehow.

That leaves a  villain-shaped gap in our story, and who would fit better 
than ESE!Lupin? He's not an antagonist to Harry, and furry 
little problem aside, he's no monster. But  tearing at the fabric 
of society because it's strangling him to death? Yeah, I can definitely
see that. And he'll have to be stopped.

Pippin