[HPforGrownups] Re: [The Timing of Lupin WAS Re: Dumbledore and Lupin

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 109206

>>Meltowne:
>>Yes, plus he may not have done it to have Lupin to contol him, but
>>to protect Lupin.  As far as they knew, he had killed 2 of his best
>>friends, so perhaps DD felt the third was also at risk.
 
There's nothing more important to Albus Dumbledore than protecting
Harry: both because Harry's necessary to save the wizarding world
from Voldemort and because he's genuinely fond of him.

The MoM's suspicion is that Sirius has broken out of Azkaban to
(among other things) kill Harry. I think that Dumbledore hired Lupin
so that he'd be protected from Black's pressure to force him to help
him find Harry.  Dumbledore's perception of Lupin includes the memory
that Lupin was incapable of keeping his friends in line, of standing
up to them.  He's taking no chances that Lupin's got any tougher over
the years so Lupin comes to Hogwarts as a teacher so Dumbledore can
make sure Sirius can't get to him.


> Lissa:
> 
> Is anyone clear on what happened at the end of PoA?  Lupin says he 
> resigned, Harry later (in OotP) says he was sacked.  So did
> Dumbledore request Lupin's resignation, or did Lupin give it 
> voluntarily?  I didn't get the impression that Dumbledore was 
> fighting Lupin to stay at the end of 
> PoA, but I didn't get the impression he was pushing him out the
> door, either. 


Lupin resigned because he had to; he'd (inadvertantly) endangered the
students and the community at large because he hadn't taken his
potion.  Taking the potion was probably part of the employment deal. 
It's not just unthinking prejudice: werewolfs are legimately objects
of fear and they are dangerous when they transform.  

Dumbldore didn't fire Lupin because he knew Lupin was honourable
enough to do the right thing and quit.  He regrets it but he has no
choice either.  Had Lupin not quit, Dumbledore would have fired him.

Magda



		
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