[The Timing of Lupin WAS Re: Dumbledore and Lupin

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 109153

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "saraquel_omphale" 
> 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.


Jen: Sirius mentions this in OOTP in the chapter Percy & 
Padfoot: "but she drafted a bit of anti-werewolf legislation two 
years ago that makes it almost impossible for him to get a job." 
(US, p. 302).

I imagined, because of the way Sirius words this, that the 
legislation was a response to Lupin's public resignation in POA. As 
owls were 'winging their way' to Dumbledore's office, they were also 
winging their way to Fudge, protesting werewolves in public 
positions or something of the like.

Sirius does make it sound like prior to the legislation, Lupin was 
*more* able to get a job, if not as easily as other people could. 
The legislation makes it 'almost impossible' now.