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

[elfundeb]

Coming in a bit late --

Eileen wrote:
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.

Debbie:
Yes!  Yes!

And what about Moody?  Despite JKR's assertion that he was "cooler" than
Crouch!Moody, what has he ever done?  Showed Harry a photograph.  Told him
to keep his buttocks on.  Showed up at the Shootout At The Ministry.  He was
*much* more fun as a plot device.

And while we're at it, we might as well rename the Order of the Phoenix the
Order of the Plot-Device.  Face it, the Order is a dull place where JKR
stockpiles warm bodies whose plot value has been exhausted, along with the
other cardboard figures she needs to serve as guards, warriors, Voldemort's
victims, etc.  Oh, and every once in a while she borrows another cardboard
cutout when she needs another faceless plot device.  Sturgis Podmore,
anyone?

Debbie
who was secretly relieved when Sirius was killed off as soon as his
plot-device value was exhausted, as she trusted Sirius even less than Kneasy


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