Intro, Q's Lupin/Tonks

[huntergreen_3]

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Steve <steve51445 at a...> wrote:
> Thought I'd introduce myself and ask a couple of questions.
> My name is Steve, I'm 30 and from Buffalo, NY. I started reading HP
> after the 2nd adaptation was released on DVD. Absolutely love them,
> and have read all 5 at least twice each.
>
> On with the questions:
>
> 1. In PoA, Lupin is on the train with the students. Ron asks
> who Lupin is as they enter the compartment. Hermione says Professor
> R. J. Lupin. She gets this from his trunk which has it written out
> in peeling letters. PoA US ed. PB pg. 74. Why are the letters
> peeling? If he had just been hired by DD in the last 2 months the
> letters wouldn't be peeling yet. Was he a teacher before? A secret
> desire to be a teacher?


SSSusan:
>>Some wondered what Remus' dad's (or mom's) name was and whether 
he/she was a professor. Others have guessed [and I believe at this 
point it really is guessing, not canon-based hypothesizing] that 
Lupin did teach before, perhaps at Durmstrang...which would at least 
explain his familiarity with & competence in teaching DADA.<<

HunterGreen:
Someone else also suggested that he might have been a tutor for pre-
Hogwarts non-muggleborns. We know from JKR that they don't go to 
school before Hogwarts, but they have to learn to read and write 
somewhere. I imagine the richer families don't teach their children 
themselves.