> We think we know him [Fagin]; we don’t hate him nearly as much as his creator did. Dickens hated Fagin? I admit my knowledge of the situation doesn't extend

> We think we know him [Fagin]; we don’t hate him nearly as much as his creator did. Dickens hated Fagin? I admit my knowledge of the situation doesn't extend beyond reading the book itself and a subsequent skim of Wikipedia, but I'd never have guessed it. He gives him and Sikes, the other top bad guy, the two most affecting, sympathetic, and human scenes in the whole book, plus plenty of others that probably wouldn't be there, or would be very different, if he hated either of them.