The Timing of Lupin WAS Re: Dumbledore and Lupin

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No: HPFGUIDX 109127

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Jo Raggett" <aggie at r...> wrote:

> I hadn't thought of it from this angle before!  That's very intersting!  Do
> you believe that DD hired Lupin *because* Sirius had escaped from Azkaban?
> It certainly seems like something he would do!  Did Sirius escape *before*
> Lupin was hired though? I would imagine it would take time for DD to go
> through the process of hiring a DADA teacher.  Although Sirius had escaped
> BEFORE the beginning of term as Harry heard it on the news at Privet Drive.
> Would this have been enough time for DD to find Lupin and persuade him to
> come to Hogwarts?  I'm sure that if DD thought Lupin could control his
> friends once (by making him prefect) then maybe he thought it would be
> beneficial to have him do it again!  Although he (Lupin) wasn't very good at
> it  first time around! I think this is whsat happened!  It makes perfect
> sense to me!
> 

Oh,  yes.
We've had fun and games with this before, but don't let that stop you.
How far you're willing to go depends on how much you think DD knows.

Sirius talks in his sleep -  "He's at Hogwarts," and is now  on the  run.
Harry is/will be at Hogwarts.
But why would Sirius wish to harm Harry?
But there is someone at Hogwarts that Sirius would like to get his hands on.
Peter/Wormtail.
You really don't think that DD didn't know who's inside that ratskin do you?
For all these years, a rat is accepted without question when students are 
allowed an owl, cat or toad? 

Though Sirius has no animus towards Harry  the reverse is not true. Harry
believes Sirius was responsible for the death of his parents.
Fudge, who just happened to be at Azkaban the night before Sirius escapes,
(pure coincidence of course - and if you believe that you might want to buy
this 100% genuine gold brick) has loosed the Dementors.

It all looks as if there's going to be a really interesting confluence of events.
So how to control it?

Well, there's this feller; seemingly looking for work and guess what? He 
knows Sirius, Peter, was a friend of the Potters *and* can teach Harry how 
to fend off Dementors. How fortunate! Just what we need to help keep the 
lid on a potentially explosive situation.

No need to tell Lupin everything; a couple of sentences will be enough - 
"Peter's still alive, Sirius may come looking for him, get close to Harry and 
don't let him do anything silly. Oh, and teach him the Patronus spell, just
in case."
Which is what he does - note his first action on entering the Shrieking Shack
is to disarm Harry, not to bind Sirius hand and foot, which is what you'd 
expect him to do.

Lupin links all the participants involved. Harry, Sirius, Peter.
He's not there by chance.

Kneasy