Throwaway comment in POA

dicentra_spectabilis_alba bonnie at niche-associates.com
Tue Jan 15 18:30:04 UTC 2002


No: HPFGUIDX 33506

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "meglet2" <mercia at i...> wrote
My take is that Lupin was planted 
> on the train by Dumbledore to protect Harry, not, as someone 
> suggested, from the dementors, but from Sirius Black. [snippage] I 
> supect that he was very far from asleep on any part of their journey 
> (the triple emphasis on his comatose state is very supicious don't 
> you think? - this is Rowling after all) and that if any other 
> students apart from our trio had looked into his compartment at the 
> beginning they would have found a wide-awake teacher, quite enough to 
> discourage anyone else from joining the compartment until HRH arrived.
> 
> Just a few thoughts but they reflect why I get such pleasure from 
> reading and rereading these books. You keep seeing more and more 
> little subtleties and plot twists. Any comments?
> 
> meglet2/Mercia

Great catch, Mercia. I think you're dead on, and I also think that
it's possible Lupin recognized Harry because of his resemblance to
James Potter.  However, I don't think we can exclude the dementors as
things Lupin was supposed to protect Harry from.  He had chocolate
handy in his possession, which is the cure for encounters with
dementors. So he was to fend of both dementors and Sirius Black and
anything else that might mess with Harry.

--Dicentra, who always suspected Lupin was awake the whole time






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