[HPFGU-Movie] Re: PoA MOVIE DISCUSSION.

[Nightbreed]

It's possible he just doesn't care to fly (see, Hermione) and it's also
possible that apparating isn't his thing as not all wizards are good at all
things. After all, if wizards could just apparate all the time why use
brooms and floo networks at all? Just as well, the parents  could
side-along-apparte their children to the Hogwarts gates, or use the floo
network.

 

The real question is, why have the train at all? Because JKR was on a train
when she thought of the book in the first place, because the entire idea was
based around a boy going to a wizard school by train. But, logically with
brooms, floo & apparition the entire idea of a train seems pointless unless
you unbalance the powers and preferences of the wizards. 

 

Maybe it just says a lot about Lupin's character, his un-flashiness, his
simplicity that he chooses less magical modes of transportation.

 

md

 

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Subject: [HPFGU-Movie] Re: PoA MOVIE DISCUSSION.

 

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com <mailto:HPFGU-Movie%40yahoogroups.com> ,
"Nightbreed" <md at ...> wrote:

> I always figured it was because Lupin is poor, can't afford a 
> broom, can't apparate into Hogwarts. 

zanooda:

Right, not into Hogwarts, but he can Apparate to the gates, can't he :-)? Or
he can use the Floo network to get to Hogsmead and then walk to the school.
Maybe he was too weak to meet Dementors in big numbers at the school
entrance, if he traveled alone? 

OTOH, he left the school at the end of the book also by a carriage, IIRC,
which is more difficult to explain, because Dementors were not there
anymore. I would guess he was not strong enough to go through Apparition,
because it is rather challenging physically, but he did it all right in DH,
so I don't know what to think :-).





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