Lupin's history with Dementors

[olivierfouquet2000]

No: HPFGUIDX 100639

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "captain_suburbia" <captain_suburbia at y...> 
wrote:
> I hope this isn't a repeat (I have looked!)..... 
> 
> In PoA when Harry and Lupin are discussing Dementors, Lupin says
> something to the effect of "I don't pretend to be an expert at
> fighting Dementors, Harry - quite the contrary...."  (page 141,
> Australian edition)  So, what, has he had an incident before?  Kind of
> implies that he's failed to do so in some way, doesn't it?  Any
> thoughts, theories?

Now Olivier

Seeing that JKR has stated that the Dementors were symbols of depression and since they 
force people to relive their worst moments, I have always understood this comment as a 
subtle clue to the fact that Lupin was a werewolf (plenty of horrible moments to relive) and 
that he knew James and Sirius (among Lupin's three best friends at that point of the story, 
two are dead and one is a DE on the loose, at the end of OOP, he's back ther by the way).

To me, it thus seems logical to learn that he isn't a specialist at fighting depression.

Olivier