Lupin and Sirius WAS Re: Some questions

[pippin_999]

> > 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. 

Nora: 
> I think the on-stage thing has a lot to do with how kids (and adults, 
> to boot) process information.  It's very different to find out that 
> someone you've heard stories about but never met ain't what you think 
> they are, than to learn of the betrayal of someone who you've 'met'.
> 

Pippin:
 No matter how explicit you make it, kids who
aren't ready don't connect.  Take the one who asked JKR
why Snape wasn't the bad guy in PS/SS. All she had to say was
that Snape wouldn't wear the turban, because to a mind that
young, the character is the costume. Just like they think the 
guy in the Santa suit *is*  Santa or that  you can
tie a red towel around your neck and fly like Superman. (My
brother managed to break his nose this way.)

Lupin in a DE's robes and hood would be  an entirely different
character from Lupin the kindly DADA teacher.  

For us older folks, there are other characters coping with discrimination and
disability who aren't jerks. 

I'm wondering if the plural in "There aren't many who'd have let you
hire werewolves" is significant.  That would explain Snape's need
to brew whole cauldrons of wolfsbane at a time, and Hermione's
amazing perspicacity in guessing what Lupin was. *Two* teachers
disappearing at the same time every month would be a bit of
a giveway. It's gotta be Vector,  conveniently enough a term
which refers to both maths and an agent of disease transmission.
Hmmm.


Pippin