John Proctor...Hero or Stooge?

Some would say hero...some would say stooge, but me, I would say he's a little bit of both. At times, I was convinced that John was never going to tell the court the truth, that he would keep putting it off. He obviously did care about his wife, Elizabeth, but would that be enough? To put his life and Abagail's at risk? When Elizabeth first asked him to go and tell the truth, he was extremely hesitant, saying that he would think on it. My reasoning for saying stooge is because he waited until the last minute and was obviously under pressure. He tells it all out at once and tells it all, this making him seem a hero. He does seem to try to blame it all on Abagail though when what they did was not forced. Proctor would have seemed more of a hero if he told the truth from the beginning, but he didn't.