Lupin and Sirius WAS Re: Some questions

[nrenka]

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

> 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.

Yeah, but 'Luke's heroic father' is pretty much an off-stage 
construction, IIRC.  Been a good long time since I sat through Star 
Wars.  In contrast, Lupin has been an on-stage character, if not a 
terribly major one--but one written, it seems to me, to be pretty 
appealing.  He's Rowling's ideal teacher, he sticks up for Neville, etc.

Sure, we've learned more things about him, but it's very different 
(just in terms of writerly mechanics--what you can do in terms of 
revealing backstory, and how) to perform that kind of re-evaluation on 
a character who's never actually talked to us, and one who has.

-Nora does a dance of hard-drive resuccitation