Lupin's Career and Other Wizarding Schools

[James P. Robinson III]

No: HPFGUIDX 48835

         When HRH first meet Lupin on the Hogwarts Express, Hermione 
identifies him (he is sleeping) as "Professor R. J. Lupin" by reading that 
inscription off his battered, old case.  Since the case is not new (and 
indeed is made to sound quite old), Lupin was a "Professor" before he got 
the DADA job at Hogwarts.  In my experience, "Professor" is a form of 
address for a teacher and not some sort of degree marker (like 
Dr.).  Therefore, I would suggest that Lupin had worked as a "Professor" or 
teacher prior to working at Hogwarts.  I would also suggest that, in the 
absence of any canon indication at all that Lupin taught overseas or taught 
at Hogwarts in the past, Occam's Razor points to Lupin having taught at 
another Wizarding school in the UK.  Admittedly, this could have been an 
informal school or a pre-Hogwarts Wizard elementary school or another 
Wizard school for children above 11 who could not go to Hogwarts, but it 
does point to some sort of extra-Hogwarts educational track, IMHO.

                                                         Jim