Maligning Lupin was Re: JKR has Mystery Writer-related to Tower Theories-long!

[susanbones2003]

No: HPFGUIDX 149624

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Renee" <R.Vink2 at ...> wrote:
>(Vicious werewolf-like snipping)
> 
> If Fenrir Greyback would be the only werewolf in the series we got to
> know, we'd hardly become indignant over the anti-werewolf prejudice.
> ESE!Lupin, especially the variant who is responsible for almost all
> the murders in the series that can't be laid at Voldemort's feet,
> would forfeit, say, 99% of the reader's sympathy (my estimate - 
others
> may have slightly different percentages in mind) and do about as much
> good to the werewolf cause as Greyback. A werewolf we can sympathise
> with is essential to JKR's message. We won't be introduced to any
> major new characters, she says. So guess who.

Jen D. here,
I know Pippin said this much better than I can when I posed a similar 
question "How can JKR take the only sympathetic werewolf in the series 
and make him the spy?" She said 

 Pippin said in message# 146839
> I'm talking about what happens when it looks like a respected person 
> went wrong...OJ Simpson or someone like that. It's not easy to judge
> a person  by their individual choices when you know that 
> unfortunately some people are going to take it as confirming
> their prejudices about a whole group.
> 
> Fenrir isn't admired by Dumbledore or Harry, and he isn't 
> caught in a moral quicksand, either.  He obviously
> enjoys what he's doing. The way I see Lupin, he believes because
> he's a werewolf he wouldn't be forgiven the slightest transgression,
> so to hide each crime he commits another, and they keep getting
> worse and worse.

I think that giving us a character we know we should sympathize with 
and making him the traitor/spy would be a very fine line JKR would be 
willing to walk. I don't know that she's interested in making sure 
she's politically correct. Difficult situations that are heart-
breaking and make you want to scream "No! It can't be!" seem to be her 
speciality.
Jen D.
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