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Carol Wrote:
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As long as we're on the topic of werewolf!Lupin, I find it odd that
the WW regards werewolves as half-human. When JKR stated in the chat
that Lupin was a half-blood, she apparently meant one witch or wizard
parent and one Muggle parent (like Seamus) or Muggle-born parent (like
Harry), not one human and one nonhuman (or half-human) parent. Also
we're told that he was bitten as a child, not born to a werewolf 
parent. 
 
But his name seems to suggest otherwise--that his father (Romulus J.
Lupin, maybe?) was a werewolf. So maybe Remus's Muggle-born mother
married his pureblood, secretly werewolf father, and his father (in
his werewolf phase) bit Remus when he was a little boy. Then it would
all fit together, even, in a sense, the half-human (or part-human)
label. (Of course, there's always the question of how his werewolf
father got through school without a Whomping Willow and the Shrieking
Shack, but I don't want to get into that!).

Okay, I know it sounds like fanfic, which was not at all my intention.
All I'm wondering is whether anyone else thinks that the werewolf who
bit Remus Lupin *could* have been his own father, also named Lupin
("wolfish")?

Carol, who still wonders why Lupin had "Professor R. J. Lupin" on his
suitcase in peeling letters when the only wizarding school in Britain
is Hogwarts. Where else would he have been teaching? Beauxbatons and
urmstrang would never have hired him.

Sue Replies:

I had always believed "R.J." were the initals of another family 
member.  It is interesting to speculate who that might be.  My 
personal favorite is that it belonged to his mother, a professor of 
theology at Cambridge (speaking of fan fic...).  I feel very 
confident, as others have mentioned, that DD would cure Lupin if he 
could.  Another of my pet speculations is that Neville and Hermione 
will work together and find a cure.  She as an excellent researcher 
and he as a Herbology and Potions Master ;).

Sue