Lupin the Writer

[Demelza]

No: HPFGUIDX 16787

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Stephanie Roark Keener" <sdrk1 at y...> 
wrote:
> (I asked this question once before, and only got one response, 
> probably b/c my subject line wasn't really indicitive of the 
> question, I'll ask again...)
> 
> 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.  I would really like to think he wrote it, that 
way, 
> I could imagine that he got a few royalities off the book, I 
wouldn't 
> have to worry about him so much, financially and all. 
> 
> Stephanie

That was my initial thought. But then I remember in a recent BBC 
interview, J. K. Rowling revealed that Snape was 35-36 years old. So 
if Snape was 35-36 in the early-mid 90's, when the Potter series 
occurs and if the Lupin is in the same age group as Snape, then he 
would have been about in his teens when the book was written. Of 
course, that wouldn't necessarily he could not have written the book. 

Demelza