Eastern European HBP?

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No: HPFGUIDX 105068

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Jen Reese" <stevejjen at e...> wrote:
> Entropy:
Alchemy plays such an important role in the HP books (it can't be an
accident that Albus, Rubeus, and Black relate to the alchemical stages
white, red, and black) and Prague plays such an interesting role in
the history of alchemy that I'm sure JKR is leading us to Prague in
some way or another!

> Jen: There's canon for him at least living in another country, if 
not being born in one. He carried that tattered bag with the peeling 
Professor R.J. Lupin label which he didn't buy new for Hogwarts. 
Also, where was he after Hogwarts, when the others thought he was  the
spy? I like to think he got a job as a Prof. in some remote  Wizarding
school, or even Durmstrang, where fewer questions were  asked, etc. 


Entropy:

Good catch, Jen.  

We have to question just how Lupin has learned so much about the Dark
Arts. He certainly didn't learn about it through conventional methods
(the MOM, like Moody and Umbridge), wasn't a DE (like Fake!Moody), and
we've seen enough of his knowledge to be sure he's not a fraud (like
Lockhart).

So, how did he gain a knowledge of the Dark Arts vast enough to become
a Hogwarts professor (and a good one, to boot!)?  Durmstrang seems a
good a place as any to learn first-hand about the Dark Arts.  And,
knowing about their affinity for all things "dark" , would probably be
more apt to hire a werewolf than any other "respectable" wizarding school.

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