Remus J. Lupin

[justcarol67]

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> Heather says:
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> How does he know everyone's name in his class?  Maybe he's just 
> really good with names.  It is a few days into the school year 
> before he has Harry's class for the first time.  I'm sure that Lupin 
> is curious about Harry (since he knew his parents well) and his 
> classmates and has taken the time to do a little 'research' about 
> them before his class.  Just guessing on this one though.....


Harry's identity would be obvious to Lupin at first glance because he
knew James so well and Harry looks very much like the young James
except for his eyes and his scar. I have no problem with Lupin knowing
who he is on the train (in any case, he hears Ron or Hermione asking
is Harry is all right) or with his calling Harry by his first name
then or later. I also think it's part of his persona as a teacher to
call all students by their first names. (Maybe a favorite teacher
named Professor Dumbledore addressed him by his?)

Since the classes are so small (ten children in his first lesson), he
may already have learned their names as you suggest. Or he could have
called the names (except for Harry's and Neville's) from the register.
He would know who Neville was from his reaction to Snape's remark
("this class contains Neville Longbottom," etc.,) and  from Neville's
resemblance to his mother, whom he knew from the original Order and
possibly from school.)

I *do* think he was actually asleep rather than listening in on the
conversation as he was ill and exhausted, but I don't think it was
coincidence that he was in the same car as Harry. Dumbledore, who
somehow magically knew that Harry had moved from the cupboard to the
smallest bedroom, would know that Harry and his friends habitually
chose the last car on the train, and I think Dumbledore told Lupin to
choose that same car. I do wonder why he seemed so untroubled by the
dementor and I also wonder how he knew or guessed so soon that
Hermione's boggart had to do with studying and might be laughed at by
the other kids, which is the only reason I can think of why he didn't
give her a turn.

Anyway, (in response to the person who originally asked the question),
I definitely don't think that Lupin is James. How could he be if he
turns into a werewolf? If James were somehow still alive and a
polyjuiced Remus died in his place in Godric's Hollow, James wouldn't
be able to transform himself into the dead Remus after all these
years. Where would he get the hair for the polyjuice potion, for one?
And the skill at Transfiguration that enabled him (after years of
study and practice) would not have enabled him to turn into another
person. (I'm not even sure that a metamorphagus like Tonks could
assume the exact shape, features, and voice of another real, living
person.)

Carol