Hogwarts Express and the Magic Compartment

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 31529

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "heathernmoore" 
<heathernmoore at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., Chip Olson <ceo at s...> wrote:

> > What I want to know is why Lupin's briefcase has "Professor
> > R.J. Lupin" stenciled on it in peeling gold letters, when he
> > (presumably) wasn't a professor until he got the Hogwarts 
gig
> > (remember he'd been unabe to find paid work before then).
> > 
> 
> 
>  Lupin is so good with the students that I suspect he worked 
for a time as either a private or a community tutor in whatever 
passes for primary education on the Wizarding Community. If 
this was within the past five or six years or so, it would be 
feasible that most of the students at Hogwarts are too old to 
have been his students in the past. Otherwise, he might have 
taught in a poorer community of the type who cannot get their 
kids into Hogwarts.

Ah, but then why not repair the briefcase with magic? I think it 
once belonged to a beloved Muggle relative, also named 
Professor R. J. Lupin, from whom Lupin inherited the both case 
and the ambition to become a teacher. This would explain the 
worn, aged appearance and the reason it couldn't be enchanted 
(because it was a Muggle artifact.)

Pippin