The Timing of Lupin WAS Re: Dumbledore and Lupin

[drliss at comcast.net]

No: HPFGUIDX 109146

Saraquel:

Hi everyone, I like this strand, but I had always assumed that Lupin 
got the Hogwarts job because of the anti-werewolf legislation which 
Umbridge had passed had made it almost impossible for Lupin to get a 
job.  Sorry can't for the life of me remember where in OotP that is 
mentioned, but if I remember rightly whoever mentions it says it 
happened a couple of years back.


Lissa:

As I understand it, Lupin had a hard time getting paid work both before and after PoA.  In PoA, he says that he's been shunned his entire adult life, unable to find paid work.  (I believe he says it in the Shrieking Shack, when he's talking about how much DD's trust means to him.)  In OotP, you're right- Sirius does say Umbridge forced a law through two years ago that makes it impossible for Lupin to find a job.

The impression I'm getting is that before PoA, Lupin could find odd jobs or really low-paying, more mundane jobs.  The work obviously wasn't steady and he didn't make much, and probably never actually stayed at a job for too long, and jobs were probably few and far between, but it seems like maybe he could actually get work.  I'm guessing that Umbridge's law was passed through once Lupin was installed at Hogwarts, because Fudge DID allow DD to hire Lupin.  (That might have actually been the final straw for good old Deloras, and might have been what got her to write the law in the first place.  A werewolf teaching at Hogwarts?  Something's got to be done!)  And once Lupin left Hogwarts... poof.  No more jobs.  (Which also means that if that law was put through before he left, he really pulled the noose around his own neck when he resigned.)

Y'know, I'm very anti ESE!Lupin, for a lot of reasons.  But I can see where, if this story were different and there weren't a few key things (like DD is the only one aside from the Marauders to ever really help Lupin, and joining up with Voldie means turning directly against DD), I can see where a different person would be bitter enough to turn ESE.  But I'm really curious to see how the Ministry's regulation of werewolves is going to play into things.  You don't introduce a new law in the fifth book that worsens a situation and then not do anything with it....

Liss

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