Lupin's dad?

[drliss at comcast.net]

Jennie

Hello, I'm a fairly new poster and just want to say first of all how 
much I love reading everyones ideas.  It's great fun while we wait 
for HBP.  Beyond that though I'm curious where the Lupin Sr idea 
came from.  I don't remember anything in particular being said about 
his family at all really.  I mean we know he has parents but other 
then the passing remark of them in POA not thinking he would get 
into Hogwarts I don't remember anything being said.  Any special 
reason why he came to mind while reading the description?
Look forward to a response


Lissa:

Hey, and welcome.  :)  

I'm one of the ones that immediately thought two things: Godric Gryffindor (the lion aspect) and Lupin's dad.  The Gryffindor one's pretty obvious, but the reason I start discounting it was the spectacles.  Lupin's dad...

The character has to be one we haven't physically seen before, otherwise why give so much attention to his appearance?  Or if we HAVE seen him, this is a younger (or future) version of said character.

The hair streaked with gray is a trait that she uses over and over to describe Lupin, which is why my mind immediately jumped to him.  Of course, the character being described in this isn't Lupin, my mind said.  But the hair and the dusty-but-distinguished traits really matched up.  (As does the fact that Lupin's eye color has never been mentioned, and most fanfic writers give Lupin amber eyes because of the wolf connection.)  So who could it be?  Lupin's dad?

Hmmm.  Why not?  We "met" Sirius's mother in OotP, and saw what she was like.  We've been promised some info about Harry's grandparents.  Why shouldn't we know a few key things about what the Lupins (and for that matter the Pettigrews) are like as well?  It makes sense that there may some day be more mention of Lupin's family- especially since JKR can most definitively answer that Lupin's a half-blood.  

It's a possibility- like so many others.  It could be a portrait of GG, and JKR just decided the Wizarding World had spectacles before the rest of the world.  It could be the new DADA teacher.  It could be the new Minister of Magic.  It could be a lot of people, but that's how (at least I) formed the theory that one of the people it -could- be was Lupin's dad.

Lissa

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