Lupin's dad??/Naw! It's got to be Alberforth!/And Other Things

[dudemom_2000]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, Sam Edwards 
<hermionesmum at y...> wrote:
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> 
> ge25y <meyerjc16 at u...> wrote:
> 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.  >Snip<  Any special reason why he came to mind 
while reading the description?
> Look forward to a response
> Jennie
> 
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>Hermionesmum said:  
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> Hi Jennie,
I'm rather new at posting too, although I've been lurking and 
joining the Sunday chat for almost a year now.
> 
> Lupin the elder came to my mind simply because of the "presence" 
this new character has. Greying tawny hair sounds very similar to 
Remus, although he is going grey prematurely of course.
> 
> The wire-rimmed spectacles imply a degree of poverty. (The family 
fortune spent trying to find a cure for his son's lycanthropy of 
course.)
> 
> The comparison with the lion implies dignity, a quaility I imagine 
Lupin to have retained in spite of everything. For example not 
allowing himself to be ruffled by Snape's comments, leaving Hogwarts 
for the good of the students and to give Dumbledore an easier ride 
with the parents.
> 
> At the end of Goblet of Fire Dumbledore tells Sirius to "lie low 
at Lupin's." This suggested to me that there is a Lupin family home 
somewhere. <Snip> 

(Dina, thanks for your comments on continuing to post these ideas on 
OT Chatter. I'm well aware this is a bit half baked and I do find 
the main list too polished to contribute to comfortably.)
> 
> I also noticed people on the main list have picked up JKR's 
comment about Sirius not being married and trying to use this to 
argue for and against the Remus and Sirius SHIP. While I would 
approve of her including a gay couple in a series about tolerance, 
given her warnings she made at the same Q and A session to the 
assembled young girls about avoiding bad boys I found myself yelling 
at the computer:
> 
> "Well please keep Remus straight then!"
> 
> I should be too old for this fan girl buisness.  
> 
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First of all welcome, Jennie! Please join us for chat some Sunday - 
we have lots of fun and are a pretty mellow group. Plus we listen to 
what each other has to say and have good discussions.

I couldn't figure out why everyone thought of a Lupin family member. 
My very first impression when I read the passage, was Oh! I bet this 
is the new DADA teacher! My second thought was this has to be 
Alberforth, Dumbledore's brother. For one, the description screams 
Gryffindor and the spectacles reminded me of Dumbledore! Again, he 
is another character that we have only had the smallest hint of. 
Possibly we will find out that DD and his brother were actually a 
lot like Fred and George.... Of course, we will probably be all 
wrong and this is a totally new character that we haven't seen 
before! 

Dina, I too appreciate your comments. I posted that I thought the 
character might be Alberforth on the main list and got ignored as 
usual. After a while it will show up in someone else's post as their 
original idea....

Anyway. I will stand by my claim that it is Alberforth till JKR 
proves us all wrong!

Dudemom_2000

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