[HPforGrownups] Re: Query

[rayheuer3 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 86345

Kathryn wrote:
>> Wouldn't he have become the Headmaster the same year Minerva became
>> Transfiguration Professor, since that was his job at one point? And if so,
>> we *do* know that don't we?
And Olivier replied:
>That makes sense, in that case he would have been Headmaster since 1956. 
However,
> that would contradict Lupin statement that I quote :

>"It seemed impossible that I would be able to come to Hogwarts [...] But 
then 
>Dumbledore became Headmaster, and he was sympathetic."

>This strongly indicates that Dumbledore was not Headmaster when Lupin was 
very 
>young, and Lupin is born around 1960.

To which I (Ray) add:

If we accept 1960 as the date of Lupin's birth, the timeline still works.  
Lupin would have then come to Hogwarts in 1971, after much debate about whether 
he should be admitted at all.  In ancient institutions such as Hogwarts, it 
could easily take a new headmaster 15 years to make such a fundamental change in 
admissions procedures.

  --  Ray


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