Lupin and Sirius WAS Re: Some questions

[pippin_999]

Kathy:
> > no one doubts him because he is
> > ...well...Lupin...the good guy! And we don't want him to be bad cause
> JKR likes him and well SO DO I...but that isn't enough reason not to suspect
> him, or is it?

Eileen: 
> It might be. My instinctive reaction to "Lupin is Ever So Evil" is that
> I can't think of *any* author who's set up a character to be loved for
> most of a *series*, then revealed at the last moment they were actually
> evil all along. A book seems to be the longest those stunts are even
> taken. JKR may be doing something completely new, but I instinctively
> doubt it, particularly as - let's face it - it'd traumatize child
> readers. 


Pippin:
No trauma. Those who are young enough to think it's all real won't process the
betrayal, at least they don't with Star Wars. Children under six or so don't
grasp that Darth Vader and Luke's heroic father are the same person.

And of course, none of us old fogie knew for sure that Vader was 
Luke's daddy until part way through Return of the Jedi, *years* after
A New Hope.

Pippin