[HPforGrownups] Re: Is Lupin a Legilimens? Is that Suspicious?

[fair wynn]

No: HPFGUIDX 157700


> > Renee:
> >
> > Lupin's still on JKR's list of favourite characters on her website.
> > What seems to have disappeared from the site (unless I did a really
> > bad search) is the question who she'd like to have dinner with, to
> > which the answer was Lupin. But AFAIK this was never a list.
>
>Pippin:
>JKR, Edinburgh Book Festival 2004
>"If I could meet anyone, I might choose Lupin. I really like him. "
>
>JKR, An Evening with Harry, Carrie and Garp 2006
>(asked which five characters she would invite to dinner)
>
>"Pretend I can take anyone? Well then I would definitely take Dumbledore.
>  I'd take Dumbledore, Harry, Ron, Hermione...and.. (crowd shouts
>characters) um, Hagrid. I'd take Hagrid, yeah. "
>
>So there is an A-list,  so to speak,  (an A-list is Hollywood slang
>for a group of the most desirable people to invite) and Lupin's not on it.
>I thought there was a quote where JKR said she'd like to have Lupin
>to dinner but I can't find it either.
>
>I can't access the video of New York events-- can anyone tell if Lupin
>is one of the characters the crowd suggested?

wynnleaf
I just watched it the other day.  Try msn.  Anyway, my impression was that 
she first said Harry, Ron and Hermione and then commented, after it was 
taking her some time to think of the rest, that she was the one who knew who 
lived and who died -- as though she was trying to pick characters still 
"alive."  Another writer said she could list dead characters, too.  After 
that she mentioned Dumbledore -- I think primarily because she had just said 
he was dead a few minutes earlier, and because she was trying to use a known 
dead character.  Then she thought a moment and added Hagrid.  But I think 
primarily she was trying to think of a "save" character to choose and she'd 
earlier that evening said if she could bring any character to life it would 
be Hagrid.

So the fact that she didn't mention Lupin doesn't mean much.

However, remember that she's said several times that Snape was her favorite 
character to write and she once called him -- I think the words were, "a 
gift of a character."  Yet her liking him as a character didn't get in the 
way of her making him mean.  So I think she can "like" Lupin and still make 
him weak and possibly weak enough to betray people.  After all, as far as 
Lupin knew, he *was* betraying Dumbledore, the Hogwarts staff, and the 
students by allowing a supposed known murderer and spy of Voldemort's to 
gain access to the castle and threaten lives, without telling anyone how he 
was doing it.  Just remember, her liking Lupin didn't stop her from having 
him betray the trust of Dumbledore, the staff and the students.  If she did 
it once, she could do it again.

wynnleaf
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