Intro, Q's Lupin/Tonks

[Meredith]

No: HPFGUIDX 110035

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "huntergreen_3" 
<patientx3 at a...> wrote:
> 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.


Was Lupin's father's name John? That either comes from an interview 
or I'm making it up. I know that's Remus's middle name.

This brings up that same old point about Lupin's name again... is 
his name Remus Lupin because he's a werewolf, or is he a werewolf 
because his name is Remus Lupin? Chicken or the egg theory... 
Obviously Lupin is his family name (Lupus, Lupine, wolf, wolflike). 
Does lycanthropy run in his family? Was he bitten by his father, or 
perhaps his uncle Remus? 


~Luckie (I am also from Buffalo, Steve!)