[the_old_crowd] Lupin quotes was Re: Never again

[pennylin]

Hi --

I agree with Naama that it may be a leap to say that Rowling's love of the *book* Lolita leads to an inference that she can make an unsavory character appear sympathetic, as Pippin argued.  

You know what I'm finding most interesting about this discussion?  How people can pick and choose where they want to delve into subtext and develop theories that go against the main grain of the fans and where they want to just go with a fairly straight-forward explanation or hypothesis that comports more with the majority viewpoint.  I'm reminded of a project that one of my constitutional law professors was writing back many years ago while I was in law school which posited that Supreme Court Justices are not "conservative" and "activist" in consistent ways: conservative jurists can be just as "activist" as the so-called liberal activist judges when it suits their purposes.  

So, in my case ---- I'm perfectly content to see Lupin as a very straight-forward "good guy" who seems highly unlikely to be anything more than what Rowling has written (in my perception).  And while I can see the plausibility of the Draco redemption theories, I don't necessarily expect to see them come to pass in canon ---- I take a more surface-text read of that character as well.  OTOH, I'm perfectly willing to delve into subtext and argue about interview statements that she's made with respect to my shipping positions.  It would seem lots of us fall into this, don't we?  I could even point out where Lexicon Steve is being "conservative" versus "activist" with respect to fan theories and canon.  <g>  

Interesting.

Penny  

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