The Timing of Lupin WAS Re: Dumbledore and Lupin

[Josh Warren]

No: HPFGUIDX 109120

> Aggie:
> If this is the case then I wonder who DD would have chosen for the 
> DADA position if Sirius hadn't escaped!!"
> 
> DuffyPoo:
> Just adding fuel to the fire...Harry first heard of Black's escape 
> on the Muggle news the morning of his 13th birthday.  That gives DD 
> the whole month of August to find Lupin and hire him.


Keep in mind that in CoS, Lockhart was the _only_ applicant. Lupin 
and Moody were special requests by Dumbledore, one can assume if not 
specifically stated, and for 5th year, he hadn't found anyone before 
Umbridge was appointed (as the decree requires). At the end of CoS, 
DD was already noting the need to advertise for a new DADA while 
talkin with Harry... it's quite reasonable that he hadn't received a 
single application in the first month, and yes, after Sirius' escape, 
and remembering all the trouble he and James had gotten into, that it 
might take another Marauder to outwit him.

Josh