[HPforGrownups] Re: Lupin the Writer

[Jeff Eakman]

No: HPFGUIDX 16867

Jeffrey writes:
You may be on to something. In,<Exploring Harry Potter> JKR makes Ref,.
to Book II, that Harry was born in late July 1980. So the ages of those
before maybe so. 

Demelza wrote:
> 
> --- 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
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