Lupin's bag - PROFESSOR

[a_reader2003]

No: HPFGUIDX 82523

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Thren <thren at s...> wrote:
> 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 ! 
> >
> >  
> >
> 
> 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? 

Carolyn:

The Register was started in 1947. Glad you corrected me on the 
possible dates - it sounded the wrong sort of book for Lupin to have 
written !