"Professor" Lupin, was: Re: ESE!Lupin condensed

[allies426]

No: HPFGUIDX 146939

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "spotsgal" <Nanagose at a...> wrote:
>
  I find the letters on the case so interesting,
> because there's no reason it has to be there.  The kids could have
> just been helped by a nameless man on the traincar, only to find out
> *later* that he was the new professor.  Or they could have asked 
Lupin
> who he was after the Dementors boarded the train.  Or they just could
> have figured it out - how many adults travel on the Hogwarts Express?
> 
> 
> Christina
>

Allie:

I like the idea that the Marauders bought it for him as a joke.  
You're totally right about the letters not needing to be there- the 
case could even have said just "RJ Lupin" with no "professor."  
Hermione still would have figured him for the new teacher.