[HPforGrownups] In defense of the Working Class

[Rowena Grunnion-Ffitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 26713


--- cynthiaanncoe at home.com wrote:
 
> I would need more proof to say that there isn't a
> class system at Hogwarts.

    I never meant there wasn't a class system, just
that the classes had no hesitation about mingling
socially. 

  Yes, Hagrid dines at the staff table (I
> think that is what 
> they call it), but we know that Dumbledore would
> trust his life to 
> Hagrid, so I assume this seating arrangement could
> be a result of 
> that personal relationship.  There's no proof that
> Filch gets invited 
> to anything, although we don't know why this is.

   Actually he is present at the Christmas luncheon in
PoA. He is wearing a dress coat and Harry et al seem
mildly surprised at seeing him there suggesting both
that he does not usually dine in the Hall and that
this is by choice, (as with Professor Trelawney).
 
> Also, many of the students (not just Malfoy, if I
> recall correctly) 
> are prepared to look down on Lupin just because of
> his shabby robes.  
> Or, at least, they are said to view Lupin with
> increased respect due 
> to his classroom performance.

   At this point the entire student body of Hogwarts
must have a *very* jaundiced view of DADA instructors!

I think it is that and Lupin's evident ill-health that
causes many students to have doubts about him at
first. 
 
> Cindy (who sometimes wonders why a talented wizard
> like Lupin doesn't 
> learn a mending charm to fix up his robes, as there
> surely must be 
> one, because first impressions are important when
> you are an 
> unemployed werewolf)  

    Or just learn to sew the normal way, or ask one of
the House elves to do it for him. I suspect Lupin's
tattered appearance is as much due to indifference as
poverty. What he needs is a nice Witch who's good at
potions and doesnt' mind a spot of lycanthropy to take
care of him. ;)

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