![]() ![]() Her werewolves, especially Lupin, are no exception. Such scholars and non-scholars as Heather Arden, Kathryn Lorenz, Amanda Cockrell, and David Colbert have noted that Rowling's invented world owes a considerable debt to medieval and early modern sources. From the marginal position, Remus Lupin steps forward, temporarily centralized, to teach other characters and Rowling's readers three lessons about their world and themselves: overcoming intolerance of the racial Other, accepting the incurably ill, and abandoning moral binaries in favor of a more nuanced morality. Even in that already marginal (if somewhat elite) community, they are further marginalized and pushed to the fringes by both popular fears and legal statutes. Initially, these representatives of the shadow and shape-shifter archetype are marginalized as part of a special sub-community and world, that of the wizards and witches. The marginalization Mittman discusses is doubly true of the werewolves in J. Although the educational value of adopting different perspectives is rather obvious, occasionally stating the obvious can be helpful. Through them, in Asa Mittman's words, the "audience is invited to adopt temporarily the perspective of people more marginal than themselves" (107-08). ![]() ![]() MONSTERS, IN GENERAL AND BY THEIR VERY NATURE, ACT AS EDUCATORS. ![]()
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