Sleepy Lupin-- WAS Throwaway comment in POA

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No: HPFGUIDX 33522

--- 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. 
-snip-

>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.>

Meglet,
I too have wondered about whether Lupin was really asleep or not on 
the infamous train ride.  At first I thought the reason he was so 
exhausted was because he had been up all night in his werewolf state, 
probably locked up in a room somewhere, breaking furniture.
But I've  since reread the previous chapter carefully, when Harry 
goes to bed in his room at the Leaky Caldron and there's no mention 
of a full moon the night before.  Of course it could have been a full 
moon outside and Harry just doesn't notice because he's thinking 
about Sirius Black.  But why didn't JKR throw this detail in anyway, 
if she wanted this to be the explanation?  After all, there are many 
things that happen that the reader notices but Harry doesn't.

So Lupin could be faking it, and hanging around HRH on Dumbledore's 
orders.  But why would Dumbledore think that Sirius Black could sneak 
onto the train anyway?  It would be pretty difficult for him to 
wander around Kings Cross and get onto Platform 9-and-3/4 with 
wizards and muggles roaming everywhere, and even a huge black dog 
lurking about would be pretty suspicious too.  If Albus was really 
that concerned about Sirius attacking Harry on the Hogwarts Express, 
why didn't he just arrange for Harry to get to Hogwarts some other 
way?

marina
Marina