Lupin on the Train

[Vicki Merriman]

No: HPFGUIDX 237

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Denise" <gypsycaine at y...> wrote:
> The question I have is "was he really sleeping?"  Winks.  Have you, 
as a parent, kept your eyes closed just to see what a kid will do 
when you aren't looking, but keeping watch underneath your eyelashes 
(I know this trick--prolly do a lot of other parents!) and keeping a 
keen ear out for trouble.  He did snort, and make noises causing 
Draco and posse to leave quickly when they started trouble....
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I wondered when I read the book whether he was really sleeping.  It 
sounds as though many of us suspect he wasn't, or at least that he 
woke up sooner than he appeared to but continued to feign sleep 
throughout the journey.

Perhaps he had a way to doze/meditate so that he really was resting, 
but he became more aware when necessary.  It was the snorting noises 
he made that drove Draco and gang off that made me suspect he might 
have been feigning sleep for at least part of the journey.

It had never occurred to me, however, that he traveled on the train 
to protect the students in general, or Harry in particular.  I don't 
think they (dumbledore and the MoM) expected the Dementors to 
actually stop the train, but its possible that he was there in case 
of trouble.  Since we learn in GoF that dumbledore considers 
Lupin "part of the old gang" then he would have had sufficient 
knowledge of his abilities to know that he could hold off a dementor.


I'm not completely convinced, but it is certainly possible.

Vicki