Werewovles as teachers (was Re: Flitwick for HBP)

[Cathy Drolet]

No: HPFGUIDX 108471

-RowanGF
"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. "


DuffyPoo:

Hasn't JKR said there are no wizard universities?  I think someone asked in hopes that there would be more than 7 books and we'd get to see the trio off to further their education.  We also have no evidence of it from the books.  Aurors go straight to Auror training for three years.  The kids, in their 5th year, are only looking at career brochures not university stuff.

Jen said: 
"I think Lupin was a teacher before Hogwarts, in a relatively obscure 
wizard school, where he learned a tremendous amount about DADA and 
dark creatures. Some place below the radar, where being a werewolf 
wouldn't garner so much attention (the school equivalent of the 
Hog's Head in other words!).>snip>Entropy suggested Lupin might be from Eastern Europe, perhaps even 
royalty, and that's where the HBP comes in. So maybe the school he 
taught in was back home."

DuffyPoo again:
I also, for some reason, don't think he'd have the same difficulty teaching somewhere like Durmstrang.  They teach the Dark Arts, according to Malfoy, not just this 'defence rubbish.'  Lupin may not have been a Dark Arts teacher in his previous position, but may have learned a lot about defending the Dark Arts while he was there.  It must be a lot different school than Hogwarts, Malfoy Sr wanted to send Draco there....but then, that was partly because Dumbledore has such a different position on blood status than Malfoy Sr.  Would Durmstrang take a half-blood teacher like Remus?  Do you have to put your blood-status on your application for employment?  Remus is a pretty good liar by this point I'm not sure he wouldn't put down pure-blood just to get a job. ;-)



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