The Timing of Lupin WAS Re: Dumbledore and Lupin

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No: HPFGUIDX 109152

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "arrowsmithbt"
<arrowsmithbt at b...> wrote:
> --- 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

Sue:

 I always assumed that Lupin got the job because a DADA teacher was
needed and DD, 
kind soul that he is, gave a go to an unemployed werewolf who was,
after all, a good 
teacher. Is DD really that much of a manipulator? For that matter, is
he really that on the 
ball? If he did know Peter was alive and where he was, why wasn't he
fighting to get Sirius 
out of Azkaban? Even Lupin thought Sirius had done it until the night
at the Shrieking 
Shack - he said so - and he was one of Sirius's two best friends.  if
I thought DD was really 
so heartless as to let a man he believed innocent rot in Azkaban
without even *trying* to 
help and then hired Lupin only to keep an eye on Harry, I'd be very
disappointed in him.