Lupin and Sirius WAS Re: Some questions

[pippin_999]

Nora:
> 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.

Pippin:
It doesn't have anything to do with 'on-stage', it's just the way little
kids process information, if we're still talking about whether children
are going to be traumatized. 


If we're talking about whether adults will find it credible, there's 
nothing very radical about an appealing second-string character
who turns out to be the villain. Christie is full of them. And
we know who reads Christie, don't we.

Lupin's close relationship with Harry is largely a fandom
construct. Harry likes Lupin well enough, but is  distant with him.
He doesn't call him 'Remus', never writes (though he'd like to get 
letters,  he wants Lupin to initiate it), doesn't ask Dumbledore
if he can bring Remus in on this horcrux stuff. Harry will be hugely
shocked if Lupin is revealed as a traitor, but it will be far more 
on Sirius's behalf than his own.


Pippin
hoping Nora's hard drive is better now