[HPforGrownups] Re: Sneakoscope question

[Batchevra at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 95884

In a message dated 4/13/04 6:28:59 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
ladyramkin2000 at yahoo.co.uk writes:
Many thanks, Steve, for coming up with a (I think) water-tight 
explanation of why the sneakoscope went off when it did.  I was 
puzzled by the fact that both Scabbers and Lupin had been in the 
carriage all along, without setting off the mechanism, but if 
Scabbers had heard Lupin's name, it would naturally set him off into 
panic-mode, thereby activating the Sneakoscope, which had remained 
dormant while he was.
Incidentally, I'm convinced Lupin was awake all the time.  
Eavesdroppping is too harsh a word.  He was doing what DD had 
presumably told him to do i.e. keeping an eye (albeit metaphorically) 
on the kids, knowing that the Dementors would be arriving.  Why else 
was he travelling on the train.  None of the other teachers do.

Sylvia (who can now go on worrying about something else)

Lupin was on the train for several different reasons, he was appointed late 
to the post and had just turned into a werewolf the night before, also he is 
poor and so Dumbledore told him to take the train. The witch who pushed the 
lunch trolley knew he was there. Also, how would he have known that Harry, Ron and 
Hermione would take the same car  that he was in? As for the Dementors, 
Dumbledore told Lupin that they were at the school as he is going to be teaching 
there. Lupin was asleep the whole time, he even says that he sleeps after he 
turns back from being a werewolf, and the fact that the Shrieking Shack had a bed 
inside of it confirms that for me. The scene in POA when he tells of becoming 
a werewolf, the potion allows me to curl up in my office until the moon 
wanes. He is physically unable to do anything after transforming into a werewolf 
and back.

Batchevra


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