Lupin (was: Eastern European HBP?)

[boyd_smythe]

No: HPFGUIDX 105073

> Entropy wrote:
> So, how did [Lupin] 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.
> :: Entropy ::

boyd:
Perhaps a simpler explanation (although probably less fun :)) is the 
more obvious one:

Lupin is a smart, exremely capable wizard, one of the four most 
talented wizards that made up the Marauders. He and the other 
Marauders explored Hogwarts and its surrounding extensively, probably 
encountering and dealing with many of the beasties it hides. They 
obviously learned magic that other students, other teachers even, 
didn't know, such as how to become an animagus and how to create the 
Marauders Map. And if their treatment of Snape is any indication, 
they'd better have known how to defend themselves in a fight, too. 
Pretty strong training already.

Then, upon leaving Hogwarts, Lupin disappears from our radar screen. 
However, since he was a werewolf, he probably tries to find remote 
locations to live outside of persecution, thus his ragged clothes. And 
in these remote locations, he may well have occasionally encountered 
beasties. So he gets frequent practice with all kinds of creatures. 
And when he is found once in a blue moon <g> by persecutors, he has to 
defend himself.

I mean, what better good guy to teach DADA than a werewolf?

Maybe an ex-DE? (ooh, did I just say that?)

--boyd