Lupin quotes was Re: Never again

[pippin_999]

> > Pippin:
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> > Jo has idealized him as a teacher, I think, to make it clear 
that  in a world in which he was allowed to fulfill the role he was 
born  for, he would never have discovered his potential for evil, 
the  same potential that rests in all of us. That's the kicker -- she 
can  like him despite what he's done because at heart he's *not* 
different than the rest of us--he represents the normal, basically  
good person's potential to do wrong.

Naama: 
> And Draco, Snape, the Dursleys, Tom Riddle never had a 
potential for  good? Why does JKR dislike them? <

Pippin:
She doesn't like them because they're sadistic bullies and 
they're not sorry about it. ESE!Lupin is something different -- he's 
not sadistic, he doesn't want to hurt people who haven't hurt him,  
but the only way for him to stop  is to confess, and he's too 
cowardly to do it.  

You are saying, I think, that JKR couldn't have have made a 
character  a murderer and decided to like him, but the way I 
imagine it, she said, what could make someone that I like, who's 
one of my favorite people, choose to become a killer? There's a 
very strong message, running all through the books, that we 
can't tell who's good and who's evil by who we like and who we 
dislike. 

Pippin previously:
They teach that  in  each  of us rests the possibility to do 
tremendous good or the greatest  evil.

Naama:
> I agree. I just don't think that JKR is showing us this via Lupin.
I  think she is starting to demostrate that through *Harry* - he has 
cast, or tried to cast, an Unforgivable, and my feeling is that this 
is only an introduction of a theme that will be fully developed in  
the next book.<

Pippin:
But whatever Harry does, he will repent of and redeem himself, 
or so I hope. In order for us to understand the jeopardy he is in, 
there needs  to be another character who wants to redeem 
himself but  is  too frightened to do it. 

Pippin