PoA MOVIE DISCUSSION.

[Carol]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "zanooda2" <zanooda2 at ...> wrote:
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> --- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "Nightbreed" <md@> wrote:
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> > I always figured it was because Lupin is poor, can't afford a 
> > broom, can't apparate into Hogwarts. 
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> zanooda:
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> 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? 
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> 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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Carol responds:

Maybe the carriage ride to the Hogwarts Express (running specifically for him since school wasn't yet out?) was a courtesy to say, "You're not really fired" (though, IMO, he should have been given the danger he presented to HRH). Or, again, maybe it was a courtesy for a man who hadn't yet recovered from a difficult and painful transformation (and a token of forgiveness for blowing his second chance (the first chance having been blown by running all over the Hogwarts grounds in werewolf form with WPP--that part would apply only to the book, of course). Or maybe, it was a courtesy because he had so much stuff to carry--the Grindylow's empty aquarium, or whatever it was called, for example--or, if we're looking at the movie, the Victrola, etc.--though I don't remember a carriage being mentioned in the film, and, IIRC. everything magically fit, Mary Poppins style, into his briefcase.

Carol, who thinks that, just maybe, DD had the DADA curse at the back of his mind and routinely sent home his sacked or incapacitated DADA instructors (the dead Quirrell and, later, Barty Jr. excepted) by this method