[HPforGrownups] Re: Lupin's bag - PROFESSOR

[Thren]

No: HPFGUIDX 82448

a_reader2003 wrote:

>Carolyn:
>
>Steve, I can help you with two bits of canon on this ! In FB, as a 
>footnote to the werewolf entry it says: 'For a heartrending account 
>of one wizard's battle with lycanthropy, see the classic 'Hairy 
>Snout, Human Heart' by an anonymous author (Whizz Hard Books, 1975)'.
>
>However, I have to say, the book doesn't sound very academic ! 
>
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>

And moi (Thren):

I've heard a lot of speculation about Lupin having written that book, 
but you've got to consider two things: One, it was *published* in 1975, 
which means that it would have been written a few years before- and no 
matter which of the plausible Marauder school years theories you follow, 
Lupin would have been a young teenager at the time of its writing. At 
that point he had hardly struggled at all in life (compared to how he 
would later), and he really wasn't that tragic until after James and 
Lily died. Second, if he *had* written it at that time, it would hardly 
have been a shining academic work- he was a teenager. :)

I think the Academic!Lupin theory is nice, but I always just assumed 
that he'd had a teaching position(s) in the past. When was the registry 
put into effect? Maybe it was before that. Or, he might have lied to the 
school, depending on how badly he needed work. Or even that the school 
didn't bother checking and he thought they would on their own- then got 
sacked when they found out. He's very obviously an accomplished teacher- 
I always thought that maybe between jobs he was a private tutor- perhaps 
for other werewolves? Children who had been bitten, like him, or perhaps 
adults whose school years came and went before Dumbledore was 
headmaster, and wanted to educate themselves. Work like that would be 
scarce and not too well-paying. Anyway.

Thren
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"And then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if like *were* fair, and 
all the terrible things come because we actually deserve them?"