Character Summary: Remus J. Lupin

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No: HPFGUIDX 11876

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., heidi <heidi.h.tandy.c92 at a...> wrote:

> First, the confessional part of the email. Sirius is sexy, Draco is
> intriguing and Harry is just the star of the universe.
> But like JKR herself, I want to have Professor Remus Lupin teach my
> child (well, most of the month, at least)

I'll have to agree here. I don't have children myself, but if I did,
I would want Lupin to teach them. And of course I would have loved
having a teacher like him when I went to school. The way he handled
Neville's fear in the lesson with the Boggart just floored me. I
never suspected him to be one of the bad guys, it just didn't come
to my mind.

> sarvalsha at d... wrote:
> 
> > QUESTIONS/ISSUES
> > 2. Snape provides Lupin with Wolfsbane potion. Lupin admits to not
> > being good at potions. How did he obtain the potion before he 
came to
> > Hogswarts? Or did he?

I think he didn't. And he tells Harry that Snape is one of the few
potion brewers who is able to make this particularly complicated
potion. So it was a chance for him to try it and to feel safe for
the first time in his werewolf live during his transformations. At
least that's how it looked to me.

> > 3. If Snape hates Sirius more, why does Snape concentrate on Lupin
> > first in the Shrieking Shack?

> Heidi: Maybe because Lupin has a wand? Good question!

I think you are right here. Snape had been watching the scene for
a while before he pulled off the invisibility cloak, so he must have
seen that Sirius was no immediate threat to him. He didn't have a
wand, and I think he must have looked so weak that Snape thought it
would be better to tie Lupin up first because he would have helped
Sirius.


> > 4. Hagrid created a photo album of Harry's parents by requesting
> > pictures from James and Lily's friends. Lupin would have been the
> > closest one left. Are there photos of Lupin in the album and if
>>  so, why didn't Harry recognize him?

> Heidi: Sirius was barely recognizable - remus also has probably 
changed a lot
> in the previous 15-25 years. 

We know that Remus looks older than he really is, so you may be
right here. Although live as a werewolf might not be as hard as life
as a prisoner in Azkaban, but it will leave its traces, too.

> Heidi: Or maybe Remus was the Colin Creevy of the group, always 
taking
> pictures, never apeparing in them...

Good idea. Someone must have taken the photos, and if James, Lily
and Sirius are pictured but not Remus, it would be legitimate to
assume that he was often the one who took them.

Monika