[the_old_crowd] Re: Never again

[Monika Huebner]

>Pippin said:

>My crystal ball is just as cloudy as everyone else's, but  my 
>guess is that just like all her other "surprise" revelations, JKR  
>could prepare the ground well enough for ESE!Lupin that  the 
>only shock readers receive will be that they didn't realize it 
>sooner. 

Now this would really surprise me. I think it is highly unlikely given
the fact that she always says he is one of her favourites along with
Harry, Hagrid and Dumbledore. Of course you can argue that one can
have a villain as a favourite, but what she uses to say about Lupin
doesn't leave much room for interpretation. IMHO of course. Sometimes
a cigar is just a cigar, and though she always succeeded in surprising
me with her ideas, Lupin is written as a nice (and good) guy.

>OTOH, those of us who can't resist imagining detailed outcomes 
>may well be disappointed whatever JKR has in store --- in the 
>distant past, when dinosaurs ruled the earth and  SW ROTJ had 
>just been released,  I had a hard time adjusting to Luke being 
>Leia's brother because I had shipped them so long.

Oh my. You really did that to poor Leia? :-)

Monika
who could never stand Luke Skywalker.