Lupin and Sirius WAS Re: Some questions

[pippin_999]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "Eileen Rebstock" <erebstock at c...> wrote:
>
> 
> It's just - as I've said before - the fact that I cannot think of ONE
> fictional example of a likeable character turning out to have always
> been evil  after the first installment of their appearance.
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> Christie does not reveal that the regulars have always been villains. An
> appealing second-string character like Roger Ackroyd can turn out to be
> bad at the end of the book, just like Tom Riddle in CoS. Or people can
> change over the course of the series, according to the circumstances.
> Witness 'Final Curtain' where Poirot commits murder (though a lot of
> people were rather annoyed even at *that*). There is no denoument where
> Poirot realizes that Hastings has *always* been a sociopathic murderer.
> Or where Miss Marple realizes Griselda has been slowly poisoning the
> Vicar since Book 1.  
> 

Pippin:
Nero Wolfe SPOILER:

Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe mystery _A Family Affair_ has a series regular 
for the villain. It's the last of the series, but then so is HP 7 alas.

Pippin