Time Turners and Lupin's apparent premature ageing

[sallyaltass]

No: HPFGUIDX 156841

Sorry to re-open an old thread, but reading through some of them
last night, I noticed a belief that continual use of the time-
turners could possibly prematurely age a wizard, in regard to the
seemingly unchronological way DD's hair turns from auburn to silver
within the space of 15 years.

Reading OotP last night, one line in particular jumped out at me.
Ch24, "...said Harry heavily, looking into Lupin's prematurely lined
face".  JKR does make constant references towards Lupins aged
appearence, from when we first meet him on the Hogwarts Express in
POA Ch5.  "Though he seemed quite young, his light-brown hair was
flecked with grey".

This does seem to be a continued thread whenever Lupin's physical
appearance is described.  He always seems to be ageing, in what
could seem to be a somewhat clever way of describing what a hard
life Lupin is living with being a werewolf.  Afterall, people do
associate 'going grey' early with a particulary hard or stressful
situation.

However, IMO, this doesn't explain why JKR metions Lupin's premature
ageing in every single visual physical description she gives of
him.  We do know that Lupin is suffering hardship, and it doesn't
need to be stressed that he's looking even older every time Harry
looks at him.  This leads to the possibility that she is hinting at
something deeper rooted.  JKR is, afterall, renowned for placing
titbits that a reader may not always initially pick up on (I didn't
make the connection with Sirius Black transforming into a big black
dog for several reads...).  Ageing during time travel is a fairly
old theory, and isn't always necessarily obvious upon first glance.

The only problem with the theory that Lupin has been time travelling
is why?  Several of my colleagues are of the belief that Lupin is
not all that he seems and that he is in fact the a DE and LV's loyal
servant in POA instead of Wormtail, although personally I have found
no solid evidence within canon for that theory to stand up.
However, we know that JKR tends to make references such as these that
eventually do hold an important relevance.  At the same time,
however, she does tend to throw in the occasional red herring.
However, IMO, the former is more likely than the latter here.

I apologise if the post is somewhat garbled, my baby has been
keeping me awake tonight...

Eagerly waiting some lucidity on the matter of Lupin's premature
ageing.

A confused and tired Sally