Werewolves as teachers

[Kirsten]

No: HPFGUIDX 108409


> DuffyPoo sez:
> 
> But Lupin had to have been teaching somewhere else: 'It's on his 
case,' replied Hermione, pointing at the luggage rack over the man's 
head, where there was a small, battered case held together with a 
large quantity of neatly knotted string.  The name 'Professor R.J. 
Lupin' was stamped across one corner *in peeling letters*.  He was 
obviously a Professor somewhere else before coming to Hogwarts, at 
least at some point since he graduated in 1978, or the letters 
wouldn't be peeling off his case. <

This is one of those inconsistencies that has always niggled at me. 
It suggests that there are other wizarding schools yet JKR has said 
that Hogwarts is the only U.K. school. So does that mean that Lupin 
was teaching at Beauxbatons? Durmstrang? A Muggle school???  

(I get the impression that teaching is Lupin's (perhaps ill-chosen) 
*career*, or *calling* would be a better word. That he's not just 
popped into Hogwarts for a change of pace.)

Or is there a WW university we have yet to hear about? That might 
provide the opportunity to teach without exposing inexperienced and 
vulnerable children to a werewolf. But it would also risk greater 
chance of his condition being discovered by his students since 
presumably university level DADA classes would be full of students 
who have been successful with NEWTS in that subject and could spot a 
werewolf a mile off. 

-RowanGF