Say it isn't so Lupin!!!

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 170044

wynnleaf:

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> In spite of some posters assumptions that there will be no further 
> traitors, each and every book has culminated with the revelation 
of 
> Harry having trusted, to one degree or another, a character who 
seems 
> to betray Harry or others.  Quirrell, Tom Riddle of the diary, 
Ginny 
> (unwillingly), Scabbers (the supposedly faithful pet) revealed as 
past 
> traitor and betrayed Ron's trust, fake!Moody, Kreacher who Harry 
> trusts to tell him the truth of where Sirius is, even Umbridge who 
> Harry would at least not have suspected of going against the MOM 
> regulations and setting dementors on him, and Snape who appears to 
> betray Dumbledore's trust.  The odds are very high that JKR will 
have 
> at least one more betrayal against the good guys in DH, and since 
it's 
> the culminating book, it seems likely that the last betrayal will 
be 
> the culminating betrayal -- bigger than all the rest.


Alla:

As always I am responding to couple of points only.

Not if HBP and DH were really planned as two parts of one book, as 
JKR noticed, then it is quite possible that the **traitor**, the 
real one is already revealed and the book 7 will deal with 
repercussions of what happened on the Tower, IMO.



wynnleaf:
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> And then there's the really lovely parallels and juxtapositions 
that
> would occur if Lupin was a traitor and Snape was found to be loyal.
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Alla:

Lovely parallels indeed, I agree.  Are they parallels that JKR 
planned though or what reader deduced? Did JKR plan to to make them 
so, or that happened inadvertendly.

What if JKR does not plan to exonerate Snape? Or maybe partially but 
not to set these parallels with Lupin?

Would ESE!Lupin still stand up on its own? Or is it just a way to 
exonerate Snape? What literary purpose ESE!Lupin serves if we 
**assume**, just for one second, that Snape is if not evil, but at 
least grey and did that horrible thing on the Tower?


And then I come with wierd picture of the guy who to me is metaphor 
for disability to come up as evil. That is since I do not think that 
JKR will make Snape come out smelling as a rose at the end.

If we think JKR is sending any messages, which I am not quite sure 
about, then message of Lupin coming up as Evil, will be in my mind 
against everything what books stand for in my opinion.


But I can be wrong of course and as I told Pippin many times, if I 
am wrong, I **will** cheerfully bow to her greatness on list, but if 
she is wrong, I am buying popcorn to see hobbit transformation <g>

JMO,

Alla