bugger and All things Snape

[nrenka]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> wrote:

> But if that's where JKR is going, she's put herself in a bind by 
> giving Lupin such an apparently passive role in the last two books.

Wait a minute.  Couldn't Lupin have been apparently passive in the same 
way that Ginny apparently totally got over her thing for Harry?  
Argument works both ways, you know. :)

We dun know what he's really been up to with the werewolves; he could 
have been fairly active within the Order.  He hasn't gotten much page 
tim in the last two books, for sure.  That's no guarantee that he won't 
play a major (and positive, contra the ESE! theory) role in the last 
one.

> If he doesn't get over his passivity, he'll be unable to lead the 
> werewolves, and if he does, he'll be a complete Gary Stu. So I think 
> ESE!Lupin's probably the most interesting thing JKR can do with him.

I see the excluded middle peeking its head out again, I think.  I saw 
Lupin's pattern of personal reticence being broken at the end of HBP, 
actually, with Tonks getting through to him.  YMMV, but that may well 
be the setup for a more active and engaged Lupin in book 7.  I don't 
see that as making him out to be Gary Stu, because he's not all of the 
sudden going to become handsome, bag all the chicks, defeat Voldemort 
and take the spotlight away from the main hero, and have all of his 
blemished polished off.

-Nora finds 'complete Gary Stu' to usually show up as Harry in fanboy 
fics, who has both a harem and massive super powerz