Lupin the Writer

[Kristin]

No: HPFGUIDX 16694

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Stephanie Roark Keener" <sdrk1 at y...> 
wrote:
> 
> Does anybody else think that Lupin could have written _Hairy Snout, 
> Human Heart_ (See FBAWTFT footnote in Werewolves section.)  The 
> publication date is 1975, which would make him slightly older than  
> I thought he was (If, and I'm not totally convinced of this, the 
> Mauraders left Hogwarts in '78 or '79).  Unless he wrote it AT 
> Hogwarts, he's pretty smart -- maybe after the Snape Prank incident 
> he was inspired.  

> Stephanie


I think he could have written it. After all Lupin IMO appears to be 
the intellectual of the Mauraders.  He would have been in his 6th 
year when, and if, he wrote it.(I'm of the impression that the 
Mauraders left Hogwarts in '76) He does have a scholarly bent so it 
wouldn't be much of a stretch for him to write a book.  Maybe this 
was his way of trying to get the wizarding world to recognize that 
werewolves are not "evil" all of the time, just 12 or 13 days a year.

Also others have pointed out that maybe JKR has used the school books 
to give us some hints about things or characters. Like the 
description of a kneazle fitting Crookshanks.  Just a thought.

Cheers,
  
     Kristin