Dress Robes and a question about Sirius/Lupin

[nobodysrib]

No: HPFGUIDX 53682

Greicy asked:

> How does Sirius know exactly where to find Harry at the Dursley's 
> on Privet Drive?  

Best answer I can come up with:

Sirius and Hagrid interact at Godric's Hollow:  "Jus' got [Harry] 
outta the ruins [of Godric's Hollow], poor little thing, with the 
great slash across his forehead, an' his parents dead... an' Sirius 
Black turns up, on that flyin' motorbike he used ter ride. <snip of 
Hagrid getting upset and being calmed down> an' I told Black no [to 
Black taking Harry], Dumbledore said Harry was ter go ter his aunt 
an' uncle's," Hagrid, in PoA US Hardcover page 206) 

Either Hagrid also mentioned where the Dursleys lived (and wouldn't 
think to add that into the replay conversation just to please us ;) ) 
or Sirius, as a friend of the Potters, would know where their muggle 
relations lived.  (I just got an image of MWPP t.p.ing the younger, 
newlywed Dursleys.)

Greicy also asked: 
> And why hasn't Lupin tried to contact Harry once he's reached 
> Hogwarts?  

I could respond to this with a jovial salute to Evil!Lupin, but for 
now will refrain from adding fodder to the Evil!/anti-Evil!Lupin 
debates.  I think that Lupin and the Potters may have had a falling 
out at some time.  There was some reason that Lupin was suspected of 
being a traitor - which may have been a result of the falling out or 
cause for it on its own.  Either way, Lupin notes in PoA that he and 
James were friends "at Hogwarts."  Perhaps Lupin didn't feel 
comfortable contacting Harry when there may be bad blood between him 
and the Potters.  In addition, Lupin may not feel it is his place to 
tell Harry stories about his parents when others, like Dumbledore, 
have not yet deemed it a fit time to do so.  Lupin could also not 
want to emotional burden of being a young boy's closest link to his 
parents - or be so personally grief stricken over the Potters' deaths 
that he cannot emotionally bear the burden of living through the 
memories as he tells stories to Harry.

- Nobody's Rib