Lupin on the train

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You brought up a good point. Lupin could have told Dumbledore or the 
MOM that Sirius was an animagus. Lupin had no reason to keep it from 
Dumbledore. He could be charged with withholding information for not 
telling MOM. He did find it hard to believe Sirius would betray the 
Potters. Strange, he never visited him in azkaban and asked him about 
it.    

Here is something I have wondered about. As long as Lupin spent at 
Hogwarts he never saw Scabbers. He was asleep most of the train ride 
but he was so close. He was friends with Harry and Ron, but never saw 
Scabbers. Has anyone noticed this? 


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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Magda Grantwich <mgrantwich at y...> wrote:
> Lupin was on the train:
> 
> 1.  To get to Hogwarts himself.
> 
> 2.  To protect the son of the best friend he ever had from being
> harmed in some way by another mutal friend who apparently betrayed
> them all a dozen years earlier and committed mass murder.  
> 
> What exactly he could do to defend Harry on the train is open to
> debate but I'm sure Lupin felt that simply "being there" to keep an
> eye on things would help somehow.  True, he had no way of knowing
> that Harry would end up in his compartment but that can be 
overcome. 
> Once the train started, Lupin could walk up and down the corridor,
> meeting and greeting.  After all, he didn't need to meet Harry as
> much as he had to watch for Sirius Black or a large black dog.
> 
> And I don't think that Lupin had slammed the door shut on friendship
> with Black.  After all, once Black escaped from prison, Lupin could
> have gone to Dumbledore at least and advised him to watch out for a
> big black dog as well as for Black himself.  It would have been a 
big
> help to the authorities.  But Lupin didn't do that.  Could it be 
that
> deep down inside he couldn't bring himself to do it?
>