Page-filler Lupin RE: [the_old_crowd] Re: bugger and All things Snape

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On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 01:50:33PM -0700, Eileen Rebstock wrote:
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> --- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> wrote:
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> > 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.
> 
> I'll make an utterly unpopular suggestion.
> 
> Lupin has no place in the books anymore. As good guy, bad guy, you name it. His time is over. His appearances lately have been the work of a soft-hearted writer who wants to keep a favourite around but has nothing to do for him, except, stricken with hurt-comfort, give him a nice wife to soothe his werewolf brow. 
> 
> Lupin. Is. Ever. So. Pass. 

I've dissed him too:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/the_old_crowd/message/3587
 
but I also get a dig in at Ginny because I think both Lupin and Ginny are
cannon-fodder, and no doubt half a dozen others are ripe for novelistic
slaughter. I simply don't care about either of them.


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