Why Lupin was on the train

[grey_wolf_c]

No: HPFGUIDX 42855

bboy_mn wrote:
> Sorry to rush off on a new topic, but you reminded me of something
> I've wondered about for a long time.
> 
> Scene: Mr. & Mrs. Weasley take Harry and family to that train 
> station.
>
> Everyone enters platform 9-3/4 and stows there gear in a available
> compartment. The Weasley brothers, Hermione, & Ginny all get into
> this compartment while Arthur pulls Harry to the side to tell him
> about Sirius Black. They talk, the train starts to leave, Harry
> rushed to the train, where Ron is holding the compartment door open 
> for him. Harry jumps on the train and is now, presumably, in the
> compartment with the Weasley's and his friends. Harry wants to talk
> to Ron and Hermione alone so they go looking for a free compartment.
> The best they can do is a compartment at the end of the train with
> one sleeping man in it.
> 
> Yada-yada-yada... Harry's pocket sneakoscope goes off and they open
> his (Harry's) trunk and stuff the sneakoscope in a sock.
> 
> Q: How did everyone's trunks get into the compartment with Lupin when
> they we originally in the compartment with the other Weasley brothers?
>
> bboy_mn

My own version of PoA seems to differ slightly from your descritpion, 
bboy_mn: When they arrive to the plataform 9 3/4, they get onto the 
train and, even though they pass several full *compartments*, in the 
end they arrive to the last *wagon*, which is nearly empty. JKR never 
specifies in what compartment they leave the trunks. Thus, it's 
entirely possible that they leave their things in the last comprtment, 
empty at that point, and that when they join Ginny, Fred and George, 
that are in *another* compartment (for example, the one were Lee Jordan 
is). Then Harry gets off the train to speak with Arthur, and while all 
of them are away, Lupin enters the last compartment, leaves his 
suitcase besides Harry's trunk, and promptly falls asleep.

It's a somewhat forced story, but it fits.

Hope that helps,

Grey Wolf, who in a previous post did mean "DNA" when he said "ADN" 
(which is what it's called "DNA" in his country. He get "AIDS" right, 
but he sometimes mistakes "DNA").